CRUCIATAMill. - CROSSWORT
Scientific Description:
Perennial to annual herbs. Leaves in whorls of 4, 1−3-veined, usually glandular dotted below apex and along margins beneath. Inflorescence narrowly cylindrical to spike-like, with whorls of short axillary cymes; central flowers hermaphrodite, lateral male or absent. Peduncles and pedicels arcuately recurved after anthesis, but not coalescent nor encircling fruit. Calyx absent. Corolla pale yellow to yellowish-green or yellow, rotate (cup-shaped), 4-merous. Stamens 4. Stigmas capitate. Fruit consisting of 1−2 mericarps, glabrous or hairy, concealed under deflexed bracts.
Reference:
Ehrendorfer F & Schönbeck-Temesy E (1982). Cruciata Miller, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 850.
Public Description:
Cruciata, is a gemus of annual and perennial plants, known as “crosswort”, and is found in Europe, northern Africa, and across southern and central Asia from Türkiye to the western Himalaya and north to the Altay region of Siberia. There are approximately 10 species in the world and 5 species (5 taxa) in Türkiye. The members of this genus have quadruplicate arranged leaf rings, and pale yellow or yellowish-green coloured flowers.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruciata/,Accessed date: 30.06.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Rubiaceae/Cruciata//,Accessed date: 30.06.2016
Karabacak E (2012) Cruciata 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. 821.
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