CYANUS Mill.GÖKBAŞ (in Turkish)

CYANUS Mill. - GÖKBAŞ (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Perennials or annuals, stem simple or with few branches in perennials, ± copiously branched in annuals, capitula medium-sized to large. Leaves ± densely tomentose on both sides, rarely glabrescent, undivided and entire or pinnatilobate to pinnatifid, upper often decurrent. Involucre ovoid to subglobose. Phyllaries less rigid than in most other sections, appendages triangular, strongly decurrent with a narrow brown or blackish border, dentate or ciliate (cilia often silvery), never ending in a firm mucro or spinule. All flowers violet- or rose-purple or pale yellow or (mostly) central violet-purple, marginal cornflower blue; marginal flowers usually strongly radiant with more than 5 segments, without staminodes (very rarely with rudimentary staminodes). Achenes medium-sized, conspicuously barbulate at margin of large hilum; pappus scabrous, often shorter than achene and inner row not always distinct, sometimes pappus absent.

Reference:
Wagenitz G (1975). Cyanus (Mill.) DC., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 572.

Public Description:

Cyanus is a genus of annual or perennial plants, known as “gökbaş” in Turkish. They have violet or rose-purple or pale yellow flowers and hairy leaves. The name of the genus comes from an old Greek word “kyanos” which is meaning “ dark blue substance” and refers to the intense blue color of the flowers.

Reference:
Davis PH (1975). Cyanus (Mill.) DC., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 572.

Anonymous (2018). https://routes.tips/blog/top_10_mountain_flowers_to_discover, Accessed Date: 03.03.2018.