Cynosurus effususL. - Yel Tarakotu (in Turkish)
Scientific Description:
Annual. Stems 7−70 cm, usually nodding at base of panicle, glabrous, smooth. Leaf sheaths smooth, uppermost well below panicle at anthesis; ligule 2−3 mm; blades 3.5−8 cm × 1−3 mm. Panicle 10−30 × 5−12 mm (excl. awns), ovoid to subglobose, laxer than in C. echinatus, with a conspicuous whitish band at each joint (rarely masked by purplish pigment). Fertile spikelets 2.5−4 mm, 1−2-flowered; glumes linear-acuminate, much narrower than lemma, white-hyaline, long-aristate; lemma 2.3−3 mm, hispid all over dorsal surface, with 8−14 mm awn from sinus; awns greenish to straw-coloured. Sterile spikelets consisting of 5−9 pectinate-distichous scale-like lemmas, upper ones distinctly shorter and broader than lower, each with 2−4.5 mm awn.
Flowering Time: April−June.
Habitat: Shady limestone rocks, fields and field margins, nr s.l.−1150 m.
Reference:
Mill RR (1985). Cynosurus effusus L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 9: 514-515.
Public Description:
Cynosurus effusus, commonly known as “yel tarakotu” in Turkish, is native to Türkiye, the Mediterranean area, Iran and Iraq. It is an annual plant, and grows up to 70 cm in length. It blooms between April and June and is found in shady limestone rocks, fields and field margins.
References:
Mill RR (1985). Cynosurus effusus L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 9: 514-515.
Cabi E, Doğan M (2012). Cynosurus 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.711.