Cruciata taurica(Pallas ex Willd.) Ehrend. Kırım Güzeli (in Turkish)

Cruciata taurica(Pallas ex Willd.) Ehrend. - Kırım Güzeli (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Suffruticose to ± herbaceous caespitose perennial, with strongly woody primary root and sometimes with few adventitious roots. Stems (6−)10−45(−70) cm, often prostrate at base, with erect to ascending branches, quadrangular, with ± broad cartilaginous angles, glabrous or pubescent with short recurved hairs, sometimes hirsute, but hairs less than 1 mm; internodes usually less than 14, upper finally elongate to 3−4.5 cm. Vegetative shoots to c. 40 cm, leaves often narrower than those of flowering stems. Leaves (5−)10−25(−40) × (2−)4−15 mm, somewhat coriaceous, oblong, narrowly elliptic to suborbicular, obtuse to acute, glabrous, with antrorsely scabrid-ciliate margins only or puberulent to shortly hirsute, 1−3-veined (those of vegetative shoots and at base of flowering shoots often 1-veined). Bracts subtending cymes accrescent to 30 × 15 mm after flowering, obovate, broadly ovate to suborbicular, parchment-like, often yellowish or tinged purple, finally reflexed. Cymes 5−9-flowered. Peduncles and pedicels ± densely hirsute or with adpressed hairs, sometimes glabrous, elongate in fruit to c. 3−4(−12) mm, strongly divaricate to reflexed. Bracteoles elliptic to suborbicular, accrescent to c. 15 × 12 mm, antrorsely ciliolate-scabrid to hairy or glabrescent. Corolla golden-yellow to yellowish-green, (2.5−)3−6 mm diam., lobes ovate to subelliptic, acute to acuminate. Mericarps usually single, globose, (2.5−)3−4(−5) mm diam., glabrous or hirsute.

Flowering time: March−July.

Habitat: Dry rocks, screes, steppe, scrub, 300−3300 m.

Reference:

Ehrendorfer F & Schönbeck-Temesy E (1982). Cruciate taurica (Pallas ex Willd. ) Ehrend, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 7: 852.

Public Description:

Cruciata taurica, commonly known as “kırım güzeli” in Turkish, is native to East Greece, Crimea, Türkiye, Caucasus, Iran, Turkmenistan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. It is a perennial plant with yellow flowers, and grows up to 70 cm in length. It blooms between March and July and is found in dry rocks, screes, steppe and scrub.

References:

Anonymous 1 (2016). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=8705/,Accessed date: 30.06.2016.

Karabacak E (2012) Cruciata 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. 821.