Asyneuma virgatum
Asyneuma virgatum
Ssp cichoriiforme: Özgedeğnek; Ssp virgatum: Çiçeklideğnek
Biennial, erect 30-70 cm, usually pubescent-scabrid, rarely glabrous. Stem with leaf rosette, leaves crowded in lower part, rarely stem leafy throughout, simply branched from middle. Rosette-leaves and lower cauline leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute to ± obtuse, 5-6 x 0.5-1 cm, slightly dentate, often undulate, narrowed into 2-4 cm petiole. Inflorescence mostly simply branched, composed of virgate, interruptedly spicate branches. Flowers in clusters of 2-5, single at apex, subsessile. Bracts lanceolate to broadly ovate. Calyx lobes lanceolate, 2-3 x 1-1·5 mm, erect. Ovary cylindrical, ribbed, glabrous or with stiff white hairs between ribs. Corolla lobes blue-violet. Stigmas 2-3 or 3. Capsule ellipsoid, rarely ± globose, sometimes elongate and constricted at apex, 5-7 x 3-4 mm, opening by 3 ± apical pores. Seeds ellipsoid, light to reddish-brown, shiny.
1. Bracts lanceolate; corolla lobes 6-7 x 1-1·5 mm; stigmas 2-3; ovary glabrous, rarely papillose, often elongate and constricted at apex; seeds 1·4-1·8 mm .................subsp. virgatum
1. Bracts broadly ovate; corolla lobes 8-10 x 1·5-2 mm; stigmas 3; ovary with ± stiff white hairs between ribs, not constricted and elongate; seeds 1·3-1·5 mm ................subsp. cichoriiforme
