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Serratula haussknechtii BOISS. |
 Serratula haussknechtii BOISS |
 Serratula haussknechtii BOISS |
Serratula L. |
| S. haussknechtii Boiss., Fl. Or. 3:589 (1875). Syn: S. nudicaulis (L.) DC. subsp. haussknechtii (Boiss.) Bornm. var. transcaucasica Bornm. in Monit. Jard. Bot. Tiflis 32:2 (1914); S. transcaucasica (Bornm.) Sosn. ex Grossh., Fl. Kavk. 4:194 (1934); Centaurea albinervis Parsa in Kew Bull. 1948:201 (1949)! Ic: Fl. URSS 28: t. 14 f. 3 (1963) as S. transcaucasica. Map 51, p. 457. Plant 20-30 cm, very sparsely villous. Stems erect, usually simple, rarely branched, leafy below, arising from horizontal rhizome sheathed in fibrous remains of dead shoots. Leaves lanceolate-petiolate, 6-7 x 0.6-1.4 cm, entire or with few remote teeth, margins crispate-pubescent. Capitula borne on long leafless peduncles. Involucre cup-shaped, c. 15 x20 mm; phyllaries c. 5-seriate, ovate-acuminate, with scarious straw-coloured margin, central area greenish with darker tip. Flowers mauvish-pink, exceeding involucre. Achenes c. 5 x 1.5 mm. Pappus of barbellate hairs c. 6 mm. Fl. 7. Mountain steppe, 1780-2800 m. Lectotype: [W. Iran] in montibus Avroman et Schahu Kurdistaniae Persicae, 3050 m, Haussknecht (K!). Easternmost Anatolia. A9 Kars: 11 km from Kars to Selim, 1780 m, Hub.-Mor. 15854! B9 Van: Güzel De. pass, 34 km from Başkale to Hoşap, 2800 m, D. 45950! N. Iran, Caucasia. Ir.-Tur. element. Hub.-Mor. 15854 is very unusual within this species in having branched stems, but in all other characters is typical of S. haussknechtii which is rather variable in the size and form of its capitula and phyllaries. Closely allied to the S. W. European S. nudicaulis (L.) D C., and perhaps conspecific. |