Seseli gummiferum
Seseli gummiferum
Ssp corymbosum: Akçaşır; Ssp gummiferum: Çaşırgöbeği
Perennial or monocarpic. Stems many, glabrous, terete, finely ridged, 30-60 cm; with a non-fibrous collar. Basal leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, c. 20 x 10 cm, 2pinnate, glaucous, finely pubescent; ultimate segments linear or linear-oblong, 20-30 x 1,5-3 mm; petiole ± equalling rachis; upper cauline leaves subsessile. Rays 15-30, ± equal, 2,5-6 cm, densely pilose. Bracts 0-1. Bracteoles c. 12, connate at base, 2,5 x 0,5 mm. Umbellules 60-80-flowered. Petals white. Pedicels 0-1 mm. Fruit oblong, c. 3 x 1-1,5 mm, densely pubescent. Fl. 7-9. Limestone cliffs, 1300-1700 m.
Endemic. E. Medit. element.
1 Fruit glabrous; the central umbel 13 to 21 rays; lateral umbels with 7 to 13 rays ............................ subsp. ilgazense
– Fruit with hairs; the central umbel 22 to 70 rays; lateral umbels with 13 to 47 rays....................... 2
2 Basal leaves glabrous....................................................subsp. crithmifolium
– Basal leaves puberulent or finely pubescent....................subsp. gummiferum
subsp. gummiferum
Differing from subsp. corymbosum P.H.Davis by its 8-16 bracts. Fl & Fr. 6-9. 1700 m.
Ssp ilgazense
Plants monocarpic, 15–30 cm tall; rootstock thickened, cylindrical, oblong, ± vertical, 8–15 mm diameter; stems 3 to 5, terete, finely ridged, mostly glabrous, sparsely puberulent above, with a developed fibrous collar 2.5–7 cm; stems mostly branching from the base, below and rarely at the middle part, green to purplish green. Basal leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 2-pinnate, 6–20 × 3–10 cm, glabrous; ultimate segments lanceolate, linear-oblong, 5–15 × 0.5–1.5 mm, acute to acuminate; sheaths developed, distinctly widened at base, upper sheath surface sulcate, margin membranous; cauline leaves similar to basal leaves, partly reduced, amplexicaule, middle and upper portions of the stem leafless. Flowers hermaphroditic; the central umbel stout, 7–11 cm diam., equal to or longer than lateral umbels, rarely shorter, with 13 to 21 rays, 1.8–5.5 cm long, puberulent above, unequal, each central umbel with by 2 to 7 bracts; bracts lanceolate, rarely widened at base, 10–17 mm long, margin ± membranous, sometimes bifid to trifid, glabrous or puberulent; umbellules 9–15 mm diam, each comprising 55 to 70 flowers; bracteoles 15–20, connate at base, 5–8 mm long, linear- lanceolate, acuminate, entire or bifid to trifid, green to partly purple, margin distinctly membranous, especially ciliate at apex, out side glabrous to puberulent; lateral umbels 3.5–6 cm diam. with 7 to 13 rays, 1–3.5 cm long, with bracts or without. Flowers subsesile, glabrous, sepals ±purplish, broadly lanceolate, glabrous, persistent, ca. 1 mm; petals white, glabrous with deflexed apex; filament white, anther clearly purple; ovary glabrous. Fruit oblong-elliptic, 3.5–4 × 1.5–2 mm, glabrous, with 5 ribs prominent, obtuse; stylopodium short-conical; styles deflexed in fruit, distinctly purple.
