| Boraginaceae |
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Onosma bulbotrichum DC. |
 Onosma bulbotrichum DC |
Onosma L. |
| O. bulbotrichum DC, Prodr. 10:64 (1846). Figure 10, p. 247. Biennial or monocarpic. Stems 1-several, to 50 cm, with shrivelled remains of petioles at base, erect to ascending, branched above, densely clothed with long white stout setae. Leaves 4-10 cm, linear, linear-spathulate or linear-lanceolate, sessile, subacute, densely covered with setae arising from white tubercles above, hairy on both surfaces. Inflorescence of numerous cymes which become elongated and straight after flowering. Bracts lanceolate. Pedicels 1-3 mm in flower, to 10 mm in fruit, densely setose. Calyx 15-20 mm, lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla whitish to pale yellow, 18-22 mm, cylindrical-campanulate, glabrous or puberu-lous. Annulus hairy. Anthers included or with sterile tips exserted. Nutlets 6x4.5 mm, with gibbous shoulders and with sharp ventral and indistinct dorsal keel, beak strongly incurved, obtuse, pale grey. Fl. 5-7. Field margins, rocky slopes, steppe, 400-2300 m. Type: [N. Iran] prope Teheran, Aucher 3103 (holo. G). Mainly E. Anatolia. B6 Maraş: Guyuk Su to Kapalak, 11 vi 1906, G. &B.Post! B7 Elaziğ: between Erzürük and Apand, Sint. 1889:803! Malatya: 30 km N. of Malatya towards Arapkir, 750 m, Hub.-Mor. 8855! Erzincan: Sipikör, Bendola, Sint. 1890:3066b! B9 Ağri: Doğubayazit to Diyadin, 1070-1220 m, Hewitt 171! B10 Van: 3-4 km N.E. of Başkale, 2300 m, D. 44518! C6 Gaziantep: Nisip to Birecik, c. 5 km from Euphrates, 400 m, D. 21971! C7 Urfa: halfway between Viranşehir and Ceylanpinar, 450-500 m, D. 42303! N. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan. Ir.-Tur. element. |