Brassicaceae

Alyssum eriophyllum

Alyssum L. Alyssum eriophyllum BOISS. ET HAUSSKN. Ömür: Çok veya İki yıllık Yapı: otsu Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Habitat: ? Minimum yükseklik: 1400 Maksimum yükseklik: 1800 Endemik: endemik Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: G. Anadolu (Anti-Toroslar) Genel dağılımı: Türkiye Bulunduğu kareler:B6 C6

A. eriophyllum Boiss. & Hausskn. in Boiss., Fl. Or. 1: 273 (1867). Syn: A. eriophyllum var. umbellatum Post, Fl. Syr. 83 (1896)! Ic.: Nyár., ibid., 1: f. 3; t. 3 &5 (1949). Figure 18, p. 373.   Short-lived perennial or biennial with stout, lax and arcuate, reddish, glabres-cent stems up to 40 cm. Sterile shoots sprawling, decumbent. Indumentum dense canescent-silvery, pannose-tomentose, of stellate hairs (2-4 mm diam.) with few, long, branched, unequal and sericeous rays. Cauline leaves oblanceolate, acute, decreasing in size upwards, with a dense indumentum of short-rayed stellate hairs, not pannose. Petals obovate, entire or emarginate, glabrous, 1.5-2 x 0.5-1 mm. Fruits ovate or obovate, obtuse or subemarginate, 2-2.5(-3) x 1.5-2(-2.5) mm, often slightly S-shaped in cross-section, with a ± sparse indumentum of coarse stellate hairs with suberect, unequal and branched rays, glabrescent at maturity, valves unequally inflated. Styles 1-1.5 mm, glabrous. Seeds wingless. Fl. 6-7. Alt. 1400-1800 m.   Lectotype: [Turkey C6 Maraş] in apricis montis Berytdagh, Cataoniae, 1800 m, 11 viii 1865, Haussknecht (G! BM! GH! JE! K!).   Anti-Taurus. B6 Malatya: Doğanşehir, 1400 m, Stainton 5478! C6 Maraş: Kapu Chamdagh (Kapiçam Da., SE of Maraş), 1884, Post!   Endemic; the diagnostic white-pannose indumentum covering the sterile shoots of A. eriophyllum is unique in the genus.