BOMBYCILAENA (DC.) Smoljan. - KISAAYAKLI (in Turkish)
Scientific Description:
Lanate annuals. Stems erect or decumbent, often branched from base. Leaves simple, entire, linear to oblong, alternate. Capitula 2−3, aggregated in terminal or axillary clusters, disciform, ± globose (3−4 mm). Phyllaries few (4−5), small, scarious. Receptacle cylindrical; paleae c. 8, saccate, laterally compressed, each enclosing a female flower, coriaceous in fruit, deciduous with achene at maturity. Female corollas filiform, 2-dentate, attached laterally to ovary; hermaphrodite (functionally male) flowers at apex of receptacle, corollas tubular, 5-dentate. Achenes obliquely obovoid, compressed; pappus absent.
Reference:
Holub J (1975). Bombycilaena (DC.) Smoljan., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 113.
Public Description:
Bombycilaena is a genus of annual herbs known as “kısaayaklı” in Turkish, and is native to Europe, North Africa, southwest Asia, Northwest America. There are 2 species in the world and all species also found in Türkiye. Plants are covered with hairs that give a woolly appearance.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombycilaena, Accessed date: 06.01.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Compositae/Bombycilaena/, Accessed date: 06.01.2016.
Ekim T (2012). Bombycilaena (DC.) Smoljan. In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 121–122.
