STEVENIELLASchltr. - TAKKELİSALEP (IN TURKISH)
Scientific Description:
Plants with single leaf at base and small roundish tubers. Spike narrowly cylindrical, lax, many-flowered. Sepals fused to form a closed hood. Labellum 3-lobed, ligulate, bent backwards. Spur broadly conical, notched at apex. Column short, anther obtuse. Pollinia 2, each attached by a short caudicle to a viscid gland, both glands enclosed in a single pouch (bursicula). Ovary cylindrical, sessile, slightly twisted, glabrous. – Monotypic.
Reference:
Renz J & Taubenheim G (1984). Steveniella Schlechter, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 8: 514.
Public Description:
Steveniella, commonly known as “takkelisalep”, is native to Iran, Türkiye, Crimea and the Caucasus. There is only 1 species both in the world and Türkiye. It is a perennial herb with a characteristic single leaf at base and small roundish tubers.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steveniella, Accessed date: 10.05.2017.
Güler N (2012). Steveniella Schltr., 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. 652.
