Laserpitium hispidumM.Bieb. Saçlı enguban (in Turkish)

Laserpitium hispidumM.Bieb. - Saçlı enguban (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Erect, ± hispid biennial with striate to sulcate stems, 30-100 cm. Lower leaves 3-pinnate, 12−22 × 8−20 cm, ultimate segments ovate-rhomboid, ± deeply lobed, 5−25 × 4−20 mm. Rays 20−40, usually with spreading white hairs, inner surface shortly setulose, 1.5−7 cm. Bracts 8−11, white-margined, 1−2.5 cm. Bracteoles c. 10, oblong, acuminate, white-margined, 4−9 × 1−2 mm. Pedicels 9−25, shorter than bracteoles, usually with long white hairs. Petals white, drying yellow, less than 1 mm. Mericarps ± terete, densely white-hairy when immature; primary ridges filiform, secondary with c. 1.5 mm wings which develop on maturity.

Flowering time: July−August.

Habitat: Edges of gullies, banks at edges of Pinus L. forests, 700−1500 m.

Reference:
Hedge IC & Lamond JM (1972). Laserpitium hispidum Bieb., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinurgh, 4: 516.

Public Description:

Laserpitium hispidum, known as “saçlı enguban” in Turkish, is distributed in Türkiye, South Russia, and the Caucasus. It is a biennial herb with white flowers and grows up to 100 cm in length. It blooms between July and August and is found in edges of gullies and banks at edges of pine (Pinus L.) forests.

References:

Anonymous 1 (2015). http://www.discoverlife.org/20/m?kind=Laserpitium+hispidum, Accessed date: 20.12.2015.

Anonymous 2 (2015). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=4467, Accessed date: 20.12.2015.

Sağıroğlu M (2012). Laserpitium 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. 68–69.