DORYCNIUML. - KAPLANOTU (in Turkish)
Scientific Description:
Perennial herbs or small sub-shrubs. Leaves 5−7-foliolate, rachis elongate or absent, the lowest pair of leaflets often resembling stipules; stipules minute, gland-like. Inflorescence a subcapitate umbel, subsessile or pedunculate, often subtended by leafy bracts and with an inconspicuous involucre of gland-like, free or ± united, red bracteoles. Calyx campanulate with 5 equal teeth, or slightly 2-lipped (the two upper teeth broader than the rest). Corolla white, pink or purplish; keel obtuse, dark red or violet. Stamens diadelphous. Legume oblong-cylindrical to ovoid-globular, dehiscent, often transversely septate. Seeds 1−8.
Reference:
Demiriz H (1970). Dorycnium L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 3: 512.
Public Description:
Dorycnium, known as “kaplanotu” in Turkish, is a genus of perennial herbs or small sub-shrubs, and is distributed in the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands. There are 12 species in the world and 7 species (8 taxa) in Türkiye. They have white, pink or purplish flowers.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorycnium/, Accessed date: 09.02.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http:/www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Leguminosae/Dorycnium/, Accessed date: 09.02.2016.
Vural M (2012). Dorycnium Mill., 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. 460.
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