Brassicaceae

Aethionema speciosum

Aethionema speciosum

Aethionema R. BR. Aethionema speciosum BOISS. ET HUET subsp. speciosum BOISS. ET HUET Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: otsu (taban odunsu) Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 5 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 9 Habitat: kurak kayalık yamaç, kar sınırı Minimum yükseklik: 1500 Maksimum yükseklik: 3000 Endemik: - Element: İran-Turan Türkiye dağılımı: D. ve G. (Anti-Toroslar) Anadolu Genel dağılımı: K. Irak Bulunduğu kareler:A7 A8 B6 B7 B8 B9 C2 C6 C9

Ae. speciosum Boiss. & Huet in Boiss., Diagn. ser. 2(5): 44 (1859).   Perennial, c. 15-25 cm, woody at base, flowering stems usually simple, glabrous, ± glaucous. Leaves ovate-oblong or oblanceolate, thickish, indistinctly 1 -nerved, sessile or subpetiolate; margin entire, cartilaginous-papillose. Petals pink, 6-8 x2-5-3(-5) mm. Filaments not connate; anthers slightly apiculate. Ovary 2-locular, 1 or 2 ovules in each loculus. Fruiting pedicels recurved, 5-8 mm. Siliculae broadly ovate-cordate, rounded at base, c. 7 ;< 8 mm; septum 5.6 x 2.5 mm: wings 1-1.5 mm, undulate and lacerate-dentate; sinus 1-2 mm; style 2-3 mm. Seeds usually 2, finely granulate, not mucilaginous. Fl. 5-9. Dry rocky slopes, often near snow line, 1500-3000 m.   Type: [Turkey B8 Gümüşane] Armenia inter Gumuschkhane et Zagalarhane prope Erzurum, 1500-1800 m, v 1853, Huet (holo. G! iso. K!).   Mainly E. Anatolia & Anti-Taurus. A7 Gümüşane: Agyridagh (c. 12 km SW of Gümüşane), Sint. 1894: 5655! 336 Maraş: Binboğa Da., above Yalak, 2200 m, D. 20144! B6 Sivas: Bey Da., S of Zara, 2400 m, Stn. & Hend. 5310! B7 Tunceli: Munzur Da., above Ovacik, 2400 m, D. 31330! Erzincan: Refahiye to Erzincan, 2000 m, Balls 266! B8 Bitlis: Kambos Da., above Hurmuz, 2100 m, D. 23451! B9 Van: Gevaş, Artos Da., 3000 m, D. 22814! C6 Seyhan: Kassanoglu, Kotschy 64. C9 Hakkari: Kara Da., 2900 m, D. 24447!   North Iraq. Ir.-Tur. element. The filaments of the longer stamens are either toothed or not, and on the same mountain forms with and without teeth can be found.