Asperula pestalozzaeBoiss. Has Belumotu (in Turkish)

Asperula pestalozzaeBoiss. - Has Belumotu (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Caespitose semi-shrub, with prostrate stems and ascending to erect, basaly densely leafy, flowering and vegetative branches. Flowering stems (13−)20−60 cm, quadrangular, glabrous to somewhat puberulent or scabrid-hispid in their lower parts, with condensed basal and elongate upper internodes. Leaves 4−15(−25) × 0.3−0.75 mm, linear to filiform, mucronate to aristate, with hyaline tips to c. 0.7 mm and strongly revolute margins, scabrid to hispid or nearly glabrous, ± spreading to recurved. Flowers in head-like cymes terminating brached axes of inflorescence, rarely in 1−2 intercalary verticillasters. Bracts 2−4 mm, lanceolate to ovate, mostly aristate, finely denticulate to entire, glabrous. Corolla pale pink, 2−3 mm, infundibular, with tube 2 × as long as or only somewhat shorter than the ovate-oblong, acute lobes, ± hispid outside, sometimes nearly glabrous. Ovary papillose. Mericarps c. 2 mm, verrucose, dark brown.

 

Flowering time: July−August.

Habitat: Rocky slopes and steppes, limestone, sandstone, marl and clay, 300−2300 m.

 

Reference:

Ehrendorfer F & Schönbeck-Temesy E (1982). Asperula pestalozzae Boiss., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 755.

Public Description:

Asperula pestalozzae is an endemic species to Türkiye and known as “has belumotu” in Turkish. It is a perennial semi-shrub with pale pink flowers, and grows up to 60 cm in length. It blooms between July and August and is found in rocky slopes and steppes, limestone, sandstone, marl and clay.

 

References:

Ehrendorfer F & Schönbeck-Temesy E (1982). Asperula pestalozzae Boiss., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 755.

Minareci E (2012) Asperula 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. 816–819.