| Brassicaceae |
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Alyssum armenum BOISS. |
Alyssum armenum BOISS. |
Alyssum armenum BOISS. |
 Alyssum armenum BOISS |
 Alyssum armenum BOISS |
 Alyssum armenum BOISS |
 Alyssum armenum BOISS |
Alyssum LAlyssum L. |
| A. armenum Boiss., Fl. Or. 1: 278 (1867) emend. Schischkin in Bull. Mus. Georg. 18 (1922). Syn: A. daghestanicum Rupr., Fl. Cauc. 104 (1869)! Perennial, up to 15 cm. Cauline leaves broadly oblanceolate or obovate, acut-ish, increasing in size upwards. Racemes conferted, 2-5 cm. Pedicels ± horizontal, with an indumentum of adpressed or strigose stellate hairs. Petals entire, 4-5(-6) x 1-2 mm. Fruits ± orbicular, obtuse or truncate, with a dense indumentum of coarse, many-rayed, stellate hairs; valves ± equally inflated. Styles hairy for ½-¾ of their lengths. Seeds wingless or narrowly winged. Fl. 5-7. Rocky places, 1200-3650 m. Lectotype: [Turkey BIO Ağri] in Armenia Turcica prope Bayazid, Aucher 4093 (BM! G! K! W!). Scattered in N. & E. Anatolia. A3 Bolu: Abant G., 1200 m, Markgraf! A5 Sinop: Ayancik to Zundan böl, Abbasi B7 Tunceli: Munzur Da. above Ovacik, 2600 m, D. 31137! B8 Erzurum: Erzurum, Calvert &Zohrab! B9 Van: d. Gevaş, Artos Da., 3650 m, D. 22849! B10 Ağri: Bayazid (Doğubayazit), Aucher 2099! C9 Van: d. Çatak, Kavuşşahap Da., 3300 m, D. 23119! Caucasia. Some of the distinguishing characters of A. armenum apparently intergrade with those of A. ochroleucum where the two overlap; they might possibly be better treated as subspecies of A. ochroleucum. |