SCROPHULARIAL. - FIGWORT
Scientific Description:
Perennial, biennial or annual herbs. Leaves usually opposite, entire to 3-pinnatisect. Inflorescence ± paniculate or racemose. Flowers in cymes (rarely reduced to single flowers), in axils of leaf-like or reduced bracts. Calyx equally 5-lobed. Corolla with ± ventricose tube, bilabiate or with ± equal lobes. Fertile stamens 4, anthers glabrous or rarely glandular; fifth (adaxial) stamen usually represented by a scale-like staminode, or absent. Capsule globose to ovoid, septicidal; seeds numerous, ovoid, pitted.
Reference:
Lall SS & Mill RR (1978). Scrophularia L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 603.
Public Description:
Scrophularia, commonly known as “figwort”, is a genus of annual, biennial or perennial herbaceous plants. It spreads in the Northern Hemisphere, but most species are found in Asia and a few species are found in Europe and North America. There are approximately 86 species in the world and 65 species (86 taxa) in Türkiye. Members of this genus are characterized by square stems, opposite leaves and open two-lipped flowers.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2016). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrophularia /,Accessed date: 22.09.2016.
Anonymous 2 (2016). http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Scrophulariaceae/Scrophularia/, Accessed date: 22.09.2016.
Uzunhisarcıklı M E (2012) Scrophularia 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. 845–850.
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