FILAGO L. - COTTON-ROSE
Scientific Description:
Tomentose or lanate annuals. Stems erect or procumbent, branched from base or only above. Leaves simple, entire, linear-lanceolate to orbicular-spathulate, alternate. Capitula borne in axillary and terminal clusters, disciform, pyramidal, ovoid to cylindrical (4−6 mm long). Phyllaries few, small, scarious. Receptacle filiform, fragile; paleae 3−5-seriate, imbricate, scarious, concave or navicular, subtending outer female flowers, acute or acuminate, yellow or brownish, erect or somewhat divergent but not stellately spreading in fruit. Flowers yellowish, outer ones female, epappose, corolla filiform, finely 2−4-dentate; inner flowers at apex of receptacle both female and hermaphrodite, or only hermaphrodite, fertile, pappose, hermaphrodite corolla 4−5-dentate. Achenes cylindrical to obovoid, slightly compressed laterally, free, ± papillose, all similar. Pappus (always present in Turkey) hairs whitish, scabrous.
Reference:
Holub J (1975). Filago L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 101−102.
Public Description:
Filago, commonly known as “cotton-rose” or “cudweeds”, is native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa. There are approximately 56 species in the world and 12 species (12 taxa) in Türkiye. The plants are covered with woolly hairs throughout, and the ball-top cotton flower heads were gathered into dense, stalkless clusters.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filago, Accessed date: 14.11.2017.
Anonymous 2 (2017). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Compositae/Filago/,Accessed date: 14.11.2017.
Anonymous 3 (2017). https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/search/?q=filago,Accessed date: 14.11.2017.
Ekim T (2012). Filago 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. 160–161.
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