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Onobrychis armena BOISS. ET HUET |
Onobrychis armena BOISS. ET HUET |
 Onobrychis armena BOISS. ET HUET |
Onobrychis ADANS. |
| O. armena Boiss. & Huet in Boiss., Diagn. ser. 2(2): 36 (1856). Syn: O. tenuis Boiss. & Bal. 1.c. 2(6): 65 (1859); O. lasiostachya Boiss. var. cana Boiss., F1. Or. 2:535 (1872)!; O. cadmea Boiss. var. microcarpa Boiss., 1.c. 536; O. cana (Boiss.) Hand.-Mazz. in Öst. Bot. Zeitschr. 59:376, 481 (1909); O. arenaria (Kit. ex Willd.) DC. subsp. cana (Boiss.) Hayek, Prodr. Fl. Balc. 1:929 (1926); O. cana var. syriaca Širj. & Rech. fil. in Ark. Bot. 5:255 (1959). Figure 15, p. 585. Perennial with many procumbent or ascending stems, 15-60 cm. Leaves with 6-8 pairs of oblong-elliptic or linear-oblong leaflets, c. 10 x 2 mm, adpressed pilose on both surfaces or almost glabrous above; stipules connate, membranous, ciliate on margins. Peduncles as long as or up to 2 x length of the leaves. Racemes ovate-oblong or narrow oblong, elongating in fruit. Calyx 5-7 mm long, glabrous on tube and pilose on margins or adpressed or spreading pilose all over; teeth 2 x length of tube. Corolla pink with darker striations; standard 7-9(-10) mm, often emarginate; wings 2.5-4 mm; keel 7-9(-10) mm. Fruit 5 mm with teeth on crest and disc up to 2 mm, rarely subabsent, adpressed pilose with short hairs. Fl. 5-8. Rocky, often limestone, slopes, roadside, macchie, in Quercus scrub, 100-2000 m. Type: [N.E. Anatolia] Armenia prope Hiosck, Huet (K!, G). Widespread except in S.E. Anatolia, Mesopotamia and Islands. A1(E) Çanakkale: Ilyasbaba Burun, Ingoldby 266. A1(A) Çanakkale: Erenköy, Kirk! A2 Kocaeli: Tavşancil station, Demiriz 4833! A3 Ankara: N.W. Beypazari, Kühne 330! A4 Çankiri: Çankiri to Kalecik, D. 21756! A5 Çorum: Sungurlu to Çorum, 900 m, Coode & Jones 1675! A6 Samsun: Samsun, 150 m, Tobey 283! A7 Gümü-şane: Gümüşane to Bayburt, 1300 m, Hub.-Mor. 15060! A9 Çoruh: 6 km from Ardanuç, 650 m, Hub.-Mor. 16123! B1 Izmir: Trianta Çiftlik nr. Torbali, 140m, Hub.-Mor. 2088! B2 Denizli: Inegöl, Hub.-Mor. 5342! B2 Uşak: 4 km S of Uşak, 800 m, Coode & Jones 2430! B3 Eskişehir: Polatli to Sivrihisar, 800 m, Coode & Jones 2267! B4 Ankara: Ankara, 850 m, Ledingham 4299! B5 Nevşehir: Nevşehir, 1200 m, D. 19162! B6 Sivas: d. Kangal, Kangal to Sivas, 1650 m, Hub.-Mor. 13408! B7 Erzincan: Cirzini to Kazankaya tepesi, 1750-2000 m, Demiriz 5844! B8 Erzurum: Ilica to Tercan, 2000 m, D. 30867! C2 Burdur: Fethiye to Dirmil, Hub.-Mor. 5344! C3 Antalya: d. Kemer, near Çalbali Da., 1200 m, D. 15229! C4 Konya: 4 km N of Konya, 1040 m, Hub.-Mor. 8528! C6 Maraş: Ahir Da., 1800 m, Haradj. 1629! Is: Khios, Reese! Kos, 100 m, D. 40539! Samos, 600 m, D. 1675! Endemic. A very common, widespread and most variable species, O. armena is very closely related to O. oxyodonta but distinguished from it by the short fruiting peduncles. It is also very closely allied to O. arenaria, a widely distributed and very polymorphic European species, in which seven subspecies are recognised in Flora Europaea (vol. 2:190, 1968). Subspecific status might also be preferablefor O. oxyodonta and O. armena, but more investigation is needed. One of the most polymorphic species in Turkey, O. armena varies greatly in the size and shape of the leaflets, indumentum density and corolla size, but as the variation is continuous and without any relation to geography, no subspecific taxa have been recognised. |