Carpinus orientalis
Carpinus orientalis
İstiriç
subsp. orientalis.
Small tree or shrub, with smooth grey bark. Young shoots brown, densely adpressed-pilose; buds reddish-brown, ±hairy. Leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtusish or slightly cordate at base, 3-6 x 2-3 cm, with 12-15 pairs of veins, regularly biserrate, glabrous above, adpressed-pilose on midrib, lateral veins and the vein axils beneath. Involucre not lobed, irregularly serrate, 1.2-2 x 0.8-1.3 cm, strongly veined, ± glabrous. Fl. 7-8. Mostly in mixed deciduous forests , usually calcicole, s.l.-1400 m.
S.E. Europe, Latakia, Caucasia, N. Iran.
