Asyneuma linifolium

Asyneuma linifolium

 Ssp glabrum: Cıbıldeğnek; Ssp linifolium: Ketendeğneği; Ssp nallihanicum: Nallıhan değneği

Perennial with creeping, usually much-branched rhizome. Stems ascending or erect, 12-15 cm, leafy in lower 1/3 or throughout, glabrous. rarely papillose. Cauline leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, obovate, 10-50 x 1-6 mm, entire or ± dentate. Flowers in spicate or paniculate inflorescence, rarely solitary, erect. Calyx lobes 2·5-3 mm, linear-subulate, erect, glabrous. Stigmas 3. Capsule ± globose, opening by 3 ± median pores. Seeds ellipsoid, small, 0·8 x 0·3-0·4 mm, light brown, shiny.
1. Stems slender, to 2 mm diam. at base ……subsp. linifolium  element.)
1. Stems arising from thickened, c. 5 mm diam. woody rootstock .
    2. Stems 20-25 cm tall; Bracts obsolete; inflorescence many-flowered: pedicels and ovary densely pubescent; corolla lobes scabrid; style 5-6 mm ………subsp. nallihanicum 
    2. Stems 7-10 crn tall; Bracts linear-setaceous, 1-5 mm; inflorescence few-flowered: pedicels and ovary completely glabrous; corolla lobes glabrous; style 4 mm …subsp. glabrum