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Polygala pruinosaBoiss. - Milkwort
Scientific Description:
Perennial, stems ascending, pubescent. Lower leaves ovate to obovate, upper leaves elliptic to linear. Racemes usually all terminal, lax (3−)6−20(−25)-flowered. Bracts shorter than the pedicels. Upper sepal gibbous. Inner sepals oblong-obovate, somewhat stipitate, with veins anastomosing near the apex, bluish. Corolla equalling or a little shorter than the inner sepals. Anthers shortly stipitate. Capsule sessile, obcordate, unequally winged.
Flowering Time: April−July.
Habitat: Slopes, hillsides, etc., s.l.−2000 m.
subsp. pruinosa
Wing of capsule 0.5−1 mm broad; racemes (7−)10−30-flowered.
Reference:
Cullen J (1965). Polygala pruinosa Boiss., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1: 535.
Public Description:
Polygala pruinosa subsp. pruinosa, common name “milkwort”, is a perennial fowering plant, and native to Türkiye and Armenia. A plant with blue flowers and short and can be seen in the hillsides and slopes up to 2000 m from above sea level in July. The antiviral properties of this plant was exhibited in a study.
References:
Anonymous 1 (2017). http://vanherbaryum.yyu.edu.tr/flora/azortandir/polygalaprpr/index.htm/Accessed date: 15.03.2017.
Anonymous 2 (2017). http://www.turkiyebitkileri.com/index.php?dil=tr&id=2&familya=56&cins=347&tur=1379#.WMnetvnyjIU/Accessed date: 15.03.2017.
Akyıldırım B (2012). Polygala 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. 756–757.
Sezik E, Alaçam R, Saraçoğlu İ (1984). Herpes simplex Tip-1 ve Tip-2 virüslerine karşı bazı triterpenik saponizitlerin antiviral etkileri. T.Kl.Tıp.Bil. Araşt.Derg. 2: 170–174.