Ruta buxbaumii
Ruta buxbaumii
Sedefotu
Plant herbaceous, stems sparsely or more densely crisped-hairy, especially above, robust, 15-48 cm. Leaves typically oblanceolate and entire, ± longattenuate and pseudopetiolate below, crisped-pubescent; sometimes trisect or simple and narrowly oblanceolate to linear-lanceolate. Inflorescence broad and spreading, rather lax, up to 20 cm diam., the branches sparingly crisped-hairy to ± densely white-lanate. Sepals deltoid-ovate. Petals bright yellow, oblong to elliptic, 5-7 mm. Filaments abruptly expanded in the lower half and ± parallelsided below. Loculi biovulate. Capsule segments rounded at the apex with convex glands usually with whitish margins, glabrous to pubescent or lanate. FI. 6-7. Steppe and waste, fallow or cultivated ground, s.l.-1400 m.
1. Young ovary segments each with an apical tubercle distinctly larger than the ± plane glands of the body of each segment, this tubercle soon evanescent as the ovary develops and rarely at all detectable in the ripe fruit; plant most commonly lanate in the inflorescence subsp. mesopotamicum
1. Young ovary with all the glands similar, having no small but distinct apical tubercle; plant most commonly sparingly crisped-hairy above subsp. buxbaumii
