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Jurinea consanguinea DC. - Geyikgöbeği (in Turkish)
Scientific Description:
Perennial herbs; stems green, sparsely arachnoid with same diam. (1−3 mm) throughout, simple or sometimes branched, sparsely leaved below. Basal leaves 4−10 cm, entire or more commonly, pinnatisect with 7−12 narrowly linear to lanceolate, mostly mucronulate segments with revolute, usually non-undulate margin; green, sparsely arachnoid above, white woolly beneath. Cauline leaves much smaller, upper ones undivided, linear-lanceolate. Capitula solitary on long peduncles. Involucre hemispherical, 15−30 mm broad; phyllaries c. 5-seriate, lanceolate, 60−130, adpressed to patent but not reflexed; outer ± arachnoid, hardened, 4 × 1−1.5 mm, nearly as broad as but shorter than glabrescent to glandulose 14−15 × 1.5 mm inner phyllaries. Flowers lilac, purple or deep red. Immature achenes smooth to puberulent or longitudinally lamellate, mature ones longitudinally striate or suborbiculate. Pappus hairs barbellate.
Flowering time: May−August.
Habitat: Steppe, fallow and cultivated fields, rocks, woodland, nr s.l.−1950 m.
Reference:
Danin A & Davis PH (1975). Jurinea consanguinea DC., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 442.
Public Description:
Jurinea consanguinea, known as “geyikgöbeği” in Turkish, is distributed in the Balkans, Türkiye and Aegean Islands. It is a perennial herb with lilac, purple or deep red colors flowers. It blooms between May and August and is found in steppe, fallow and cultivated fields, rocks, woodland.
References:
Anonymous (2016). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=5316, Accessed date: 13.01.2016.
Doğan B (2012). Jurinea Cass., 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. 176–177.