| Liliaceae |
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 Bellevalia modesta WENDELBO |
Bellevalia LAPEYR. |
B. modesta Wendelbo in Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 38:425, t. 5 f. b (1980). Map 44. Leaves 3, markedly longer than scape, to 2 cm broad, long-acuminate, glaucous, margin undulate and distinctly ciliate. Scapes 1-2,7-20(-30) cm. Raceme cylindrical, many-flowered, rather dense. Pedicels erect at first, then recurved, 4-6 mm. Flower buds purplish. Perianth cream with dull purple base of tube, pale brown with paler lobes when dry, nodding, 5.5-8 mm, campanulate, lobes as long as tube, subequal, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, outer ones slightly longer and broader and more oblique than inner. Anthers yellow. Only young fruit known, apparently rather small on hardly elongated, arcuate pedicels. Fl. 3-4. On clay, waste ground and fields, macchie, 160-240 m. Type: Turkey C5 lçel: above Tarsus, above Yenice, 240 m, clay, waste ground, fields, 7 vi 1934, Balls 695 (holo. E! iso. K!). S. Anatolia; rare. C5 lçel: Çakirli Köyü, Çukurova, Deaver T. 103! Kanli-divane, Uslu 1276! Endemic. E. Medit. element. Related to B. densiflora Boiss. and B. flex-uosa Boiss., both from Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. |