CERINTHEL. - HONEYWORTS
Scientific Description:
Annual, biennial or perennial herbs. Leaves subglabrous, often calcareous-tuberculate, ± glaucous. Inflorescence terminal, branched, cymes compact and often nodding at first, greatly elongating and becoming straight and erect in fruit, prominently bracteate. Calyx divided to middle or below, lobes unequal. Corolla cylindrical, yellow with red-spotted or violet-suffused tube which lacks scales and folds. Stamens included or equalling corolla tube (rarely shortly exserted from tube); filaments inserted near middle of corolla tube, anthers sagittate to hastate, connate at base. Nutlets 2, each bilocular, ± ovoid-globose, 3−5 × 3−4 mm, shortly beaked, chestnut brown to black, smooth.
Reference:
Edmondson JR (1978). Cerinthe L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 376.
Public Description:
Cerinthe is a genus of a flowering plants commonly known as “honeyworts” and circum-Mediterranean distribution. There are approximately 6 species in the word and 4 species (5 taxa) in Türkiye. They are annual, biennial or perennial herbaceous plants with yellow, red-spotted or violet-colored flowers, almost hairless leaves.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2015). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerinthe/, Accessed date: 22.12.2015.
Anonymous 2 (2015). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Boraginaceae/Cerinthe/, Accessed date: 22.12.2015.
Körüklü ST (2012). Cerinthe L., 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. 225.
