Verbascum armenumBoiss. & Kotschy Deligezer (in Turkish)

Verbascum armenumBoiss. & Kotschy - Deligezer (in Turkish)

Scientific Description:

Biennial, 50−200 cm, shortly adpressed whitish or yellowish tomentose, eglandular. Stem thickish, angled, usually branched above. Basal leaves linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 20−50 × 3−13 cm, crenate to crenulate, petiole winged, 2−4 cm; cauline numerous, smaller, upper ovate to cordate, ± caudate. Inflorescence dense or lax, branched, forming oblong-pyramidal panicle; flowers 3−9 in crowded or remote clusters. Bracts 5−30 mm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or caudate; bracteoles 2. Pedicels 3−12 mm. Calyx 6−12 mm, lobes narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla yellow, 20−40 mm diam., without pellucid glands, pubescent outside. Stamens 5, filaments with whitish-yellow wool up to anthers, 2 anterior with anthers decurrent, 2.5−3.5 mm, rarely indistinctly decurrent, 2 mm. Capsule ovate-elliptic, 6−8 × 4−5 mm, stellate-tomentose.

var. occidentale Hub. -Mor.

Inflorescence ± lax; indumentum yellowish; corolla 20−25 mm diam.

Flowering time: June−August.

Habitat: Riversides, pastures, Pinus nigra L. forest, 1600−2600 m.

Reference:

Huber-Morath A (1978). Verbascum armenum Boiss. & Kotschy, In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 6: 517.

Public Description:

Verbascum armenum var. occidentale is an endemic species to Türkiye and known as “deligezer” in Turkish. It is a biennial or perennial herb with yellow flowers, and grows up to 2 m in length. The plants first form rosettes at the ground level, and then a long stem develops. Biennial plants form rosette leaves in the first year, and stems in the following season. Leaves are spirallly arranged and densely hairy. It blooms between June and August and is found in riversides, pastures, black pine (Pinus nigra L.) forest.

References:

Anonymous (2018). http://www.tubives.com/index.php?sayfa=1&tax_id=6886/,Accessed date: 29.01.2018.

Karavelioğulları F A (2012) Verbascum 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. 850–870.