Liliaceae

O. narbonense L., Cent. Pi 2:15 (1756). Syn: O. pyramidale auct. mult, non L. (1753); O. bmchystachys C. Koch in Linnaea 22:248 (1849)! O. pras-inantkerum Zahar. in Ann Mus. Goulandris 3:57 (1977); O. brachystylum Zahar. 4:249 (1978)! ic: Bot. Mag. 51: t. 2510(1824);Grey-Wilson &Mathew, Bulbst. 15(1981). Figure 10.
Scape to 80(-100) cm. Leaves several, linear, to 16 mm broad, shorterthan scape, usually persistent, margin entire to denticulate. Raceme cylindrical, with 25-75 flowers. Perianth segments 10-16 mm, white inside, white with a broad or narrow green fascia outside, connivent and twisted together after anthesis. Fruiting pedicels to 40 mm, strictly erect. Capsule ovoid or ovoid-cylindrical. 2n -14. Slopes, fields, roadsides, waste places, s. 1.-3000 m.
Described from S. France and Italy (Hb. Linn. 428/7, photo!).
Widespread, particularly in Inner Anatolia. A1(E) Kirklareli: 10 km from Babaeski to Istanbul, Baytop (ISTE 22414)! A1(A) Çanakkale: Dardanelles, Sint. 1883:929! A2(E) Istanbul: Halkali, Demiriz 3989! A4 Kastamonu:Kastamonu to Cide, 950 m, Ketenoğlu (ANK 803)! A5 Samsun: Ladik.. Kara Da., 1000 m, Tobey 1157! A6 Samsun: 3.2 km E. of Samsun, 30 m, Tobey 367! A8 Çoruh: Artvin, 850 m, D. 30018! A9 Erzurum: Horasan, 1600 m, D. 29381! Bl lzmir: Çeşme, 10-50 m, D. 41810! B3 Eskişehir: 50 km from Kütahya to Eskişehir, 800 m, Dudley (D. 36065)! B4 Konya: KonyatoÇumra, Küçük Köy, 980 m, Helbaek 2525! B5 Yozgat: Sorgun to Çekerek, 1000 m, Coode & Jones 1645! B6 Malatya: Darende, 1500 m, Watson 5562! B7 Malatya: Malatya, 1180 m, Balls 2275! B8 Diyarbakır: 30 km W.of Silvan, 670 m, Trelawny & McPhail 2001! B9 Agri: Tutak, 1600 m, D.43990! B10 Van: 3-4 km N.E. of Başkale, 2300 m, D.44542! Cl lzmir: 6.5 kmS.of Kuşa-dasi, Brummitt 6460! C2 Denizli: Honaz Da., 1250 m, Sorger 65-15-35! C3 Burdur: 2 km from Kiziikaya to Korkuteli, Seçmen & Leblebici (EGE 24227)! C4 içel: Mut to Büyük Eğri Da., 800 m, Coode & Jones 900! C5 Adana: Bozoğlan Da. above Obruk Y., 2300 m, D. 19759! C6 Gaziantep: Kizilhisar De., 25 km S. of Gaziantep towards Kilis, 750 m, D. 28017 (2n = 1-4)1 C7 Adiyaman: Nemrut Da., 2100 m, Sorger 80-25-14! C8 Mardin: 13 km from Savur to Midyat, i 100 m, D. 42479! C9 Siirt: above Şirnak, 1400-1500 m, D. 42606! CİOHakkari: 12 km towards Yüksekova from Hakkari junction, Nehil Çayi valley, 1800 m, Watson 5605! Is: Khios, Platt 213! Sarnos, N.W. of Pithagorio, 200 m, Stamatiadou 2566; Nisiros, Gathonıe-Hardy 392! Simi, Dhrakounta, 100 m, Stamatiadou 16776; ibid., Polje Xisos, 300 m, Stamatiadou 16736 (type of O. brachystylum)] Khalki, Gathorne-Hardy 717! Rod-hos, Sinnott 538!
Mediterranean area, Transcaucasia, N.W., W. & S.W. Iran, N. Iraq. Medit. element. Zahariadi (Fl. Europaea 5:37, 1980) would place, by implication, most of the Turkish plants in his O. ponticum Zahar. (Rev. Roum. Bioi. (Bot.) 10:290, 1965), but the distinctions he gives between this and O. narbonense break down in the Turkish material. Indeed, the differences he uses to separate both from the C. European O. pyramidale L. are also slight and require further investigation. The name O. brachystachys C. Koch has been applied to smallish plants with short racemes and denticulate leaf margins. These intergrade completely with the larger O. narbonense; the leaf margin character is particularly difficult, varying in occurrence and extent from leaf to leaf on the same plant.

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Ornithogalum narbonense L.	Ornithogalum narbonense L.	Ornithogalum narbonense L.	Ornithogalum narbonense L.