Genista januensisViv. Lydian Greenweed

Genista januensisViv. - Lydian Greenweed

Scientific Description:

Procumbent or erect shrub, 10−200 cm, stems ridged but not winged. Leaves 3−15 × 1−2(−3) mm, simple, linear-oblong, linear-oblanceolate or very narrowly elliptic, subglabrous or with sparse hairs. Flowers in short racemes of 2−8 flowers on slender, flexuous, ascending or lateral branches. Bracts foliaceous; bracteoles up to 1 mm; pedicels 1−2 mm. Calyx 3.5−5 mm, glabrous or with sparse hairs. Standard 10−12 mm, broadly ovate, glabrous, as long as the keel. Legume narrowly oblong, glabrous, several-seeded.

 

subsp. lydia (Boiss.) Kit Tan &Ziel

Flowers mostly borne on short (2−5 cm) lateral branches; calyx usually glabrous with ciliate veins.

 

Flowering time: April−June.

Habitat: Rocky slopes, banks, macchie, 300−2100 m.

 

Reference:

Gibbs PE (1970). Genista lydia Boiss. In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 3: 26.

Public Description:

Genista januensis subsp. lydia, known as “Lydian greenweed”, is distributed in Türkiye, East Balkans and Syria. It is a procumbent or erect shrub with yellow flowers, and grows up to 200 cm in length. It blooms between April and June and is found in rocky slopes, banks and macchie.

 

References:

Anonymous 1 (2016). http:/www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=2424/, Accessed date: 09.02.2016.

Anonymous 2 (2016). https:/www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/7732/i-Genista-lydia-i/Details//, Accessed date: 09.02.2016.

Duran A (2012). Genista 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. 462-463.