Dorycnium graecum
Dorycnium graecum
Ak kaplanotu
Perennial herb or small sub-shrub. Stems 25-80 em, crisped-hirsute. Leaves with a short rachis, 1-3 mm; leaflets 10-30 x 3-15 mm, obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, adpressed sparingly pubescent, glabrescent above; internodes 1,5-10 cm. Inflorescence 10-30-flowered, peduncles 1,5-7 cm. Flowers 5-8 mm, white; pedicels equalling calyx-tube or somewhat shorter, 1-2 mm; calyx 3-4·5 mm, villous, calyx teeth lanceolate-subulate, about equalling tube or somewhat longer. Legume 4-10 x 1,5-3 mm, oblong-cylindrical to slightly conical, beak 1-2 mm, valves not contorting at maturity. Seeds 1-4. FI. 4-8. Roadsides, open slopes, macchie, coniferous and deciduous forest, s.I.-2000 m.
E. part of Balkan peninsula, Crimea and Caucasus. Euxine element.
