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Onobrychis oxyodonta BOISS. |
 Onobrychis oxyodonta BOISS |
Onobrychis ADANS. |
| O. oxyodonta Boiss., Diagn. ser. 1(2): 98 (1843). Syn: O. bithynica Širj. in Publ. Fac. Sci. Univ. Masaryk Brno 56:160 (1925). Figure 15, p. 585. Perennial with procumbent or ascending stems, 20-60 cm. Leaves with 5-8 pairs of linear to linear-elliptic leaflets adpressed pilose above and below or sub-glabrous above; stipules connate, membranous, ciliate on margins. Peduncles 2-4 x longer than the leaves. Racemes ovate-oblong or oblong, few to many-flowered, elongating after anthesis. Calyx 4-6 mm, pilose to villous rarely ± glabrous, with teeth 1.5-3 x length of tube. Corolla pink with darker striations; standard 7-9 mm; wings 2-4 mm; keel 6-8(-9) mm. Fruit 4-5 mm with short hard spines on the crest and the disc, and a short adpressed pilose indumentum. Fl. 5-8. Roadside, macchie, limestone hills in steppe, fallow fields, Cedrus-Pinus woods, sandy slopes, 200-2000 m. Type: [Turkey B5 Yozgat?] in monte Çiçekdag, Aııcher 1047 (holo. G). Widespread in N.W., W., S. & C. Anatolia, rare further east. A1(A) Çanakkale: 18 km S of Çanakkale, Hub.-Mor. 17493! A2(A) Kocaeli: Eskihisar, Demiriz 3791! A3 Bolu: foothills of Ala Da., Khan et al. 527! A4 Kastamonu: Kastamonu to inebolu, 900 m, Khan et al. 605! A5 Samsun: Ladik, 700 m, Tobey 734! Bl Izmir: Burnova to Manisa, 200 m, Reese! B2 Manisa: Borlu to Demirci, 540 m, Demiriz 2054! B6 Adana: d. Saimbeyli, Doğanbeyli to Akçal, 1300 m, D. 19904! B7 Malatya: Malatya to Venk, 950 m, Hub.-Mor. 9057! C2 Antalya: d. Kaş, Kalkan to Sütleyen, 1120 m, Hub.-Mor. 16859! C3 Burdur: Dirmil to Tefenni, 1000 m, Hub.-Mor. 5338! C4 Içel: Ermenek to Anamur, 2000 m, D. 16289! C4 Konya: Konya to Çumra, 980 m, Helbaek 2632! Balkans (?). Although O. oxyodonta can generally be recognised by its relatively small corollas and elongated fruiting pedicels, there is no doubt that it is a very close ally of O. armena; several specimens are of an intermediate nature. In Turkey, O. oxyodonta grows within a wide altitudinal range and in a great variety of habitats. O. bithynica Širj. was based on the solitary character of the" standard being 2 mm shorter than the keel. Although the type has not been studied, a Reese specimen (in Herb. Hub.-Mor.) from Bursa, determined as O. bithynica, has been examined. It agrees in all respects with the original description but within the same inflorescence there are both flowers with the standard/keel proportions as given by Širjaev and others in which the standard is the same length as the keel. Most records of O. oxyodonta from E. Turkey (e.g. Grossheim 5, map 451, 1952) probably refer to O. hajastana Grossh. European specimens assigned to O. oxyodonta species differ in the shorter, ovate, and fewer-flowered inflorescences, and may represent a separate taxon. |