GEUML. - AVENS
Scientific Description:
Erect rhizomatous perennial herbs. Basal leaves lyrate or pinnate, serrate or lobed; upper cauline leaves entire or tripartite, occasionally pinnate. Inflorescence a lax, 2−12-flowered cyme. Flowers erect or nodding. Epicalyx segments smaller than the sepals. Corolla whitish, pink, yellow or orange-red, longer than the calyx. Stamens numerous. Fruit a cluster of 50−250 achenes borne on a cylindrical receptacle; styles persistent, enlongating in fruit, with hooked proximal rostrum and a deciduous distal portion. Carpophore absent or present, then included within the calyx.
Reference:
Peşmen H & Chamberlain DF (1972). Geum L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinurgh, 4: 69.
Public Description:
Geum, is a genus of rhizomatous perennial herbaceous plants, commonly known as “avens”, and is widespread in Europe, Asia, North and South America, Africa, and New Zealand. There are approximately 35 species in the world and 6 species (6 taxa) in Türkiye. They have whitish, pink, yellow or orange-red flowers.
References:
Anonymous (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geum /,Accessed date: 26.05.2016.
Aslan S (2012) Geum 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. 802.
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