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Scorzonera incisa DC. |
Scorzonera incisa DC. |
 Scorzonera incisa DC |
 Scorzonera incisa DC |
Scorzonera L. |
| S. incisa DC., Prodr. 7:119 (1838). Syn: S. bulbipes Boiss. & Hausskn. in Boiss., Fl. Or. 3:759 (1875)! S. bicolor Freyn & Sint. in Öst. Bot. Zeitschr. 43:266 (1892). Ic: Lipschitz, Fragm. Monogr. Gen. Scorz. 1: t. 38, 39 (1935). Figure 24, p. 639. Map 60, p. 649. Erect caulescent perennial, 25-40 cm; rootstock cylindrical, crowned by dead petiole remains. Basal leaves dentate to pinnatifid, 10-23 x 2.4-8 cm (incl. petiole); lamina narrowly to broadly elliptic in outline, irregularly and sparsely arachnoid-pubescent, usually abruptly contracted below into a 2-5 cm petiole. Stem leaves at most c. 1/2 size of basal leaves. Capitula l-2(-4) per stem, (35-)40-50 mm long. Inner phyllaries c. 25 mm. Flowers yellow with dark purple tube. Achenes 12-17 mm, deeply sulcate, with warty wings, sometimes swollen above base (galled) so appearing pyriform and stipitate, glabrous; pappus dirty white, hairs short and plumose or longer, barbellate above and plumose below. Fl. 5-7. Cultivated ground, grassy places, 450-2350 m. Type: [Turkey B7] in Cappadocia ad Euphratem, Aucher 3315 (holo. G-DC, photo! iso. K! P!). Mainly E. Anatolia. A7/8 Gümüşane: nr Gümüşane and Bayburt, Bourgeau. A9 Erzurum: Horasan, 1600 m, D. 29377! Kars: Karaurgan, 20 viii 1912, Lonaczevski. B6 Adana: 1 km S. of Bakirdağ to Saimbeyli pass, 1920 m, Hub.-Mor. 11280! B7 Erzincan: Egin (Kemaliye), Hoschneden, Sint. 1891:2312! Tunceli: 2 km N. of Pülümür to Mutu pass, 1710 m, Hub.-Mor. 16870! B9 Erzurum: Çakmak Da., above Karayasi, 2350 m, Watson et al. 1627! Van: Bendimahi, Erciş to Van, 1700 m, D. 44149! B10 Van: 3-4 km N.E. of Başkale, 2300 m, D. 44524! C7 Urfa: c. half-way from Viranşehir to Ceylanpinar, 450-500 m, D. 42309! Soviet Armenia, N.W. Iran, N. Iraq. Ir.-Tur. element. Closely allied to the Iranian S. calyculata Boiss. The species as here circumscribed is very variable, particularly in leaf shape and form of the achenes. S. bulbipes has swollen, apparently stipitate achenes due to an insect gall. |