Boraginaceae

Anchusa leptophylla subsp. leptophylla

Anchusa L. Anchusa leptophylla ROEMER ET SCHULTES subsp. leptophylla ROEMER ET SCHULTES Ömür: İki veya Çok yıllık Yapı: ot Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 7 Habitat: kayalı yamaçlar, kumlu bozkır Minimum yükseklik: 800 Maksimum yükseklik: 3000 Endemik: - Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: K., B. ve O. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Bulgaristan, Romanya, G. Rusya Bulunduğu kareler: A1 A3 A4 A5 A7 A8 A9 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 B10 C3 C4 C5 C8

A. leptophylla Roemer & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 4:90 (1819). Syn: A. ochroleuca Bieb. var. canescens Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:151 (1875).   Strigulose to canescent-strigulose biennials or perennials; stems erect,40-70cm, ± simple to much-branched. Leaves linear, 60-110 x 6-8(-18) mm, entire. Inflorescence sericeous to ± spreading-strigulose, elongating in fruit; bracts ovate-lanceolate, minute. Calyx 4-9 mm in flower, elongating in fruit, divided to 1/3-1/2 into obtuse lobes. Corolla usually bright blue with white throat, occasionally white to yellow; tube 6-10 mm, lobes 2-4 mm. Nutlets 2-3 x 2.5-4 mm, obliquely ovoid. Fl. 6-7. Rocky slopes, sandy steppe, 800-3000 m. 1. Calyx 7-9 mm in flower; corolla tube 8-10 mm subsp. tomentosa 1. Calyx 4-6(-7) mm in flower; corolla tube 6-8 mm    2. Calyx divided to 1/2 or more, ± spreading-hairy, indumentum sometimes sparse; stems branched copiously throughout subsp. incana    2. Calyx divided to c. 1/3, densely sericeous; stems branched only near base subsp. leptophylla subsp. leptophylla (incl. A. leptophylla Roemer & Schultes var. sericansGusul. in Bul. Fac. Ştiinte Cern. 1:91 (1927)! & var. pallidiflora Hub.-Mor.). Ic: Feddes Rep. 26: t. 92 (1929). Map 24, p. 395.   Type: a specimen grown by Schott in Berlin Botanic Garden, ex Hb. Roemer & Schultes (holo. B M!).   N., W. & C. Anatolia. A3 Bolu: 1 km N. of Yiğilca, 350 m, Kühne 2671! A4 Ankara: Hacikadin valley, nr Keçiören, D. 13178! A5 Amasya: Değirmen De., nr Amasya, Maniss. 735! B2 Uşak: 10 km from Uşak to Sivasli, 900 m, Coode & Jones 2420! B3 Afyon: 17 km from Emirdağ to Bolvadin, 1100 m, Coode & Jones 2344! B4 Ankara: Dikmen Da., D. 15211b! B5 Yozgat: Sofular De., 1800 m, Coode & Jones 2096! B6 Sivas: Şarkışla, 1300 m, Stainton 8456! C3 Konya: 10 km from Beyşehir to Konya, 1100 m, Dudley (D. 35844)! Bulgaria, Romania, S. Russia. Pale flowered specimens cited above from Uşak and Konya are referable to var. pallidiflora, the type of which I have not seen.