Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort subsp. crinita (Mabille) Greuter Sharp-leaved Cancerwort

Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort subsp. crinita (Mabille) Greuter - Sharp-leaved Cancerwort

Scientific Description:

Hirsute or villous annual, often ± glandular. Stems relatively stout, shortly branched. Leaves ovate with hastate or sagittate base, sometimes ± dentate as well, obtuse or often mucronate. Pedicels pilose throughout, 5−15(−20) mm in flower, 1−2 × subtending leaf. Calyx lobes lanceolate, acuminate, scarcely marginate, 2.5−3.5 mm in flower, to 5 mm in fruit but not hiding capsule. Corolla 5−6 mm, yellow (flavous) with dark violet upper lip; spur 5−6 mm, straight or ± curved. Capsule c. 3 mm, thin-walled. Seeds c. 1 mm, rugulose-alveolate.

Flowering time: June−August.

Habitat: Weed of crops (maize, potatoes) and fallow fields, waste places, coastal shingle, s.l.−1600 m.

Reference:

Davis PH & Shepherd GJ (1978). Kickxia elatine (L.) Dumort., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 676.

Public Description:

Kickxia elatine subsp. crinita, known as “sharp-leaved cancerwort” or “sharp-leaved fluellin”, is native to Europe and Asia. It is an annual herb with yellow flowers. It blooms between June and August and is found as weed of crops (maize, potatoes) and in fallow fields, waste places and coastal shingle.

References:

Anonymous (2016) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kickxia_elatine /,Accessed date: 17.09.2016.

Uzunhisarcıklı M E (2012) Kickxia Dumort., 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. 673.