MERCURIALISL. - MERCURY
Scientific Description:
Dioecious or more rarely monoecious annual or perennial herbs. Leaves opposite, simple, crenate-serrate. Stipules chartaceous. Male flowers sub-sessile, usually in clusters on long-peduncled axillary spikes; calyx lobes 3, free, valvate; disc absent; stamens 6−20, filaments free. Female flowers solitary or in few-flowered axillary subsessile or pedunculate clusters; calyx lobes 3, free or connate at base, imbricate; disc of 2 filiform glands; ovary 2-locular, with 1 ovule per loculus; styles 2, free. Fruit schizocarpic (regma), 2-valved, septicidally dehiscent. Seeds carunculate.
Reference:
Radcliffe-Smith A (1982). Mercurialis L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 569.
Public Description:
Mercurialis is a genus of annual or perennial herbs, known as “mercury”, and is native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia. There are approximately 14 species in the world and 3 species (3 taxa) in Türkiye. They are slender annual herbs, and rhizomatious or woody perennials.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurialis_(plant)/, Accessed date: 09.02.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Euphorbiaceae/Mercurialis/, Accessed date: 09.02.2016.
Öztekin M (2012). Mercurialis 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. 424.
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