Onosma serpentinica

Muğla emceği

Perennial, rootstock with long slender branches; stem numerous, to 40 cm and to 3 mm diameter, densely whitish short patent hairy and whitish patent rigid-setose, setae with ±tubercles. Basal leaves, 15–50×3–10 mm, oblanceolate, acute, margins ±revulate, subsessile, adpressed-patent setose with tubercles and very short hairy on upper surface; patent setose ±with tubercles and very short hairy underneath. Cauline leaves 10–30×2–5 mm, lanceolate-oblanceolate, acute, middle and upper cauline shorter and narrower, margins ±revulate, sessile, densely ±patent setose with tubercles and very short hairy on both surfaces. Inflorescence of 1–2 terminal, 4–7 flowered cymes. Bracts shorter than calyx, linear-lanceolate, lowest resembling upper cauline leaves. Pedicels to 5 mm in flower, to 8 mm in fruits, densely whitish patent setose and short-hairy. Calyx 12–14 mm in flower, to 22 mm in fruits, densely patent setose on both sides and with short hairy especially at the apex of lobes; lobes 5, divided to near base, linear, linear to lanceolate, acute, 1–4 mm wide. Corolla whitish to cream-white at first, becoming pink or purple and finally bluish-violet or intense purple, 20–22 mm, cylindrical-inflated, papillate to scabride-papillate, lobes 5, reflexed, 2 mm wide and 1.5 mm long, widely triangular, acute. Annulus glabrous. Anthers sagittate, included, linear, 8–10 mm long, connate at base, bidentate apical sterile appendage 1.5 mm long. Filaments ca. 6–7 mm, arising from the corolla tube. Style 4–5 mm protruding outside the corolla limb, stigma small, distinctly bilobed. Nutlets 4.5–5.5×3–3.5 mm, ovoid with minutely beaked, acute, ±ventral keeled, smooth, shiny, pale to brownish.

Phenology:—Flowering from April to May and fruiting from May to June.

Endemic.