Mattiastrum lithospermifolium
Mattiastrum lithospermifolium
Ssp cariense: Muğla çarşağı
Very variable, usually low and many-stemmed perennial. Stems 5-25 cm, usually decumbent or ascending, rarely erect. Indumentum usually adpressed sericeous-villous, greyish, whitish or cream-coloured, rarely more spreading, harsh and hispid. Basal leaves usually obovate, lamina 11-40 x 3-11 mm; cauline narrower. Cymes usually simple, very densely circinnate, becoming lax in fruit. Pedicels 1-5 mm in flower, 2-11 mm in fruit. Corolla red-violet-purple, 3.75-5 mm, tube shorter than or subequalling usually ± shallowly lobed limb. Scales 0.8-1 x 1-1.4 mm, apex papillose, emarginate; anthers 0.8-1.4 mm. Style c. 2 mm. Nutlets suborbicular, 5.5-9 x 5.5-8 mm, disc sparsely or densely glochidiate, wing denticulate , teeth often inflexed, horizontally curved. FI. 4-8. Limestone and basic igneous slopes and screes, 790-3050 m.
1. Corolla tube shorter than or subequalling limb; limb not lobed to base, stems numerous, decumbent to ascending, ± tufted subsp. cariense var. cariense
1. Corolla tube longer than or subequalling limb; limb lobed ± to base, stems few, ± erect
2. Stem indumentum retrorsely adpressed throughout; corolla scales 0.6-1 mm broad at base... subsp. lithospermifolium
2. Stem indumentum patent-hispid, with ± antrorsely adpressed hairs beneath; corolla scales 1.1-1.4 mm broad at base.. subsp. cariense var.erectum
