Boraginaceae

Boraginaceae

Omphalodes luciliae BOISS.
subsp. kurdica RECH. FIL. ET H. RIEDL

Omphalodes MILLER
Omphalodes luciliae BOISS. subsp. kurdica RECH. FIL. ET H. RIEDL
Ömür: Çok yıllık
Yapı: ot
Hayat formu:
İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6
Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 9
Habitat: gölgeli kaya yarıkları, dikey uçurumlar
Minimum yükseklik: 3200
Maksimum yükseklik: 3200
Endemik: -
Element: ?
Türkiye dağılımı: GD. Anadolu
Genel dağılımı: K. Irak, B. İran
Bulunduğu iller
Bulunduğu kareler : B1 C2 C3 C5 C6 C10

O. luciliae Boiss., Diagn. ser. 1(4):41 (1844). Ic: Jaub. & Spach, 111. PI. Or. 4: t. 366 (1850); Bot. Mag. 99: t. 6047 (1873).
Perennial herb, with suberect rootstock. Stem 5-25 cm, ascending to prostrate or trailing. Leaves ovate to oblong, usually rounded at apex; basal and lower cauline petiolate, lamina to 4.5 x 3.5 cm, lateral nerves indistinct, petiole to 5 cm; upper cauline sessile, smaller. Inflorescence bracteate. Calyx lobes narrowly elliptic, subacute. Corolla pale blue (rarely white), tube 3-4 mm, limb 4.5-8 mm diam., limb almost flat to distinctly concave. Nutlets to 2.5x1.7 mm, wing entire. Ft. 6-9. Shady rock crevices, vertical cliffs, 1200-3350 m.
1. Lamina of basal leaves to 25 x 15(-21) mm, base cuneate, decurrent into petiole subsp. luciliae
1. Lamina of basal leaves to 35(-45) x 25(-35) mm, base ± truncate, abruptly narrowed into petiole
  2. Leaves glaucous, tubercles not or weakly developed; lamina of basal leaves elliptic-oblong subsp. scopulorum
  2. Leaves green or very slightly glaucous; tubercle-based setules usually well developed on oldest leaves; lamina of basal leaves ovate
   3. Nutlets ovate to orbicular in outline, rounded at apex, wing distinct, c. 1 mm broad subsp. cilicica
   3. Nutlets triangular-ovate in outline, distinctly broader than long and with subacute apex, wing very narrow and indistinct, c. 0.4 mm broad subsp. kurdica
subsp. kurdica Rech. fil. & H.Riedl in Fl. Iranica - Boraginaceae 97 (1967). Alt. c. 3200 m.
Type: Iraq: Arbil, M. Qandil E. Qala Diza, 1800-3000 m, Thesiger 1158 (holo. BM!).
S.E. Anatolia. CIO Hakkari: Sat Da., 3200 m, Fedden & McColl 37!
N. Iraq, W. Iran. A high-alpine chasmophytic subspecies which is probably under-collected.
Distribution of species: Greece, N. Iraq, W. Iran. Related to O. ripleyana. One of the most attractive alpine chasmophytes in Turkey; the species is cultivated in Europe as a rock-garden plant.