Asyneuma junceum

Kofadeğneği

Rather compact, caespitose and somewhat domed perennial, up to c. 15 cm high, with dense leaf rosettes and mostly leafless stems, glabrous except for the leaves. Taproot stout, napiform, brown, the 4-8 cm long collar region of the caudex branched and densely clothed with the marcescent remains of leaf bases and petioles of the previous years. Stems stiff and stout, erect to ascending, at base 2.5-3 mm in diameter, c. 15 cm long , completely glabrous, simple or rarely branched, with 6-10 long-pedicellate flowers . Rosette leaves 30-40 × 2-3 mm, entire, narrowly spathulate, obtuse, attenuate into a long petiole, upper surface of lamina shortly velutinous , lower surface glabrous , lamina, at least when dry, often conduplicate, petiole at least in lower half with cilia 0.3-0.5 mm long, leaf base somewhat sheathing and distinctly swollen. Cauline leaves usually absent, rarely present in the lower part of the stems, then single, minute , scale-like, lanceolate, sessile. Bracts subtending the flowers or 10-20 mm distant from the flowers, in size and shape similar to the cauline leaves. Pedicels 15-35 mm long, rather thin, spreading-erect. Calyx glabrous, lobes lanceolate, acute, 3-3.5 mm long, very minutely appendiculate , erect, about as long as the obconical tube. Corolla 10-14 × 2 mm, c. 3-4 times as long as the calyx, glabrous, deep violet-blue, early in anthesis tubulose and divided to 3/4-4/5 into linear, acute lobes, later lobes free. Ovary c. 2.5 mm long, glabrous, stigma c. 9 mm, 3-partite. Capsule erect , opening by subapical pores.

Endemic.