Triplespermum tenuifolium (Kit. ) Freyn Saçaklı Beybunik (in Turkish)

Triplespermum tenuifolium (Kit. ) Freyn - Saçaklı Beybunik (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Perennial, 40−100 cm. Stems l (−3), branched or unbranched above. Lower leaves usually very long, up to 16 cm, 3-pinnatisect; upper smaller, pinnatipartite or 2-pinnatisect; laciniae linear-filiform, aristate or mucronulate, 0.5−1 cm. Capitula 6 to numerous, radiate, 1−1.5 cm broad (excl. ligules), laxly corymbose on long or short, unequal peduncles. Phyllaries glabrescent or puberulent; outer broadly triangular-acute, without membranous margins; inner oblong, ± obtuse, with pale brown or whitish membranous margins. Receptacle large, broadly ovoid or hemispherical. Ligules 8−10 mm; corolla lobes of disc flowers glandular at tips. Achenes obovoid-oblong, 1.5−2 × 1−1.3 mm, ± incurved, whitish or brownish at maturity, non-mucilaginous, anteriorly smooth, posteriorly 3-ribbed, ribs thick, white; corona absent; glands tending to coalesce at tip of achene.

 

Flowering time: May−July.

Habitat: Forest, roadsides, etc., 1050−1730 m.

 

Reference:
Hossain ABM Enayet (1975). Tripleurospermum tenuifolium (Kit.) Freyn, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 5: 304−305.

Public Description:

Tripleurospermum tenuifolium, commonly known as “saçaklı beybunik” in Turkish, is native to Türkiye, Caucasus, southeastern Europe from Germany to Bulgaria. It is a biennial and rarely perennial flowering plant, and grows up to 100 cm high. It blooms between May and July, and can be found at hedges, roadsides and in cultivated fields. It is used in traditional Turkish medicine as an anti-inflammatory plant in the treatment of inflammatory diseases.

 

References:

Anonymous (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripleurospermum, Accessed date: 23.12.2017.

Erdoğan TF, Küpeli Akkol E, Süntar İ, Mert Gönenç T, Kıvçak B (2015). Fatty Acid Compositions and Anti-inflammatory Activities of Tripleurospermum parviflorum(Willd.) Pobed. and Tripleurospermum tenuifolium (Kit.). Rec. Nat. Prod. 9:3 394-403.

İnceer H (2012). Tripleurospermum, 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. 212-214.