Bupleurum sulphureum

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Annual, 10-40 cm, moderately pseudo-dichotomously branched from base or middle part of stem. Leaves 3-6 cm long, 1-2 mm broad, ± linear. Rays 4, very unequal, 3-25 mm, 1/4-2/5  as long as peduncles. Bracts 3, ½  or more as long as longest ray, 7-12 mm. Bracteoles 5, ovate to elliptic, convex, apiculate, arista 1,2-2,5 mm, finely serrate, 3-veined with well-developed internal and external veinlets, 6-9 mm, herbaceous in major part, with a sulphur-yellow brilliance at flowering. Petals yellowish, 0,9-1,25 mm, irregularly lobulate-dentate especially apically, bend irregularly 4-lobed, inflexed, lobe narrow, bifid. Anthers 0,4 mm. Stylopodium 0,5-0,75 mm broad, styles 0,5 mm. Fruit 2,2-2,4 mm, smooth, ridges filiform. Fl. 6-7. Steppe, dry open habitats, on calcareous soil, secondarily as a segetal weed, 400-1500 m.

Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element.