Cephalaria cameliensis

Çameli pelemiri

Slender, erect, or ascending perennial herbs. Stem up to 1 m tall, simple, longitudinally striate, completely glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, reticulate rugose, minute puberulent; lower leaves simple or lyrate; simple leaves narrowly lanceolate, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 5−15 × 0.7−2 cm, entire or denticulate, acute at apex; lyrate leaves lanceolate or broadly lanceolate in outline, 3−20 × 0.5−3 cm, with 1-2 segments, lateral segments oblong or linear-lanceolate, 0.2−1.5 × 0.4−0.9 cm, terminal segments larger than lateral ones, lanceolate or ovate, 3−10 × 1−2.5 cm; cauline leaves simple or lyrate; simple leaves linear or lanceolate, 3−7 × 0.2−1.4 cm; lyrate leaves lanceolate in outline 2−10 × 0.3−2 cm with 1-3 segments, lateral segments linear or linear-lanceolate, 0.7−1.5 × 0.1−0.5 cm, terminal segments larger than lateral ones, lanceolate, 2−6 × 0.5−1 cm; upper leaves simple, sessile, linear, 0.2−4 × 0.1 cm. Capitula ovoid, 8−20-flowered, 1−1.6 cm in diameter in flower, 0.4−1 cm in diameter in fruit. Involucral bracts orbicular or ovate-orbicular, 3−5 × 2−5 mm, pale purple to violet or straw color, pilose, margins ciliate, obtuse at apex; receptacular bracts oblanceolate, 6−10 × 2−4 mm, straw coloured at the base, purple-brown to violet in dorsal and at apex, pilose, margin ciliate, pilose at apex, acute at apex. Calyx cupuliform, 1 mm in diameter, with irregular teeth. Corolla pale blue, pinkish-purple or white, 8−11 mm long, densely adpressed pilose outside. Involucel 4-angled, 3−5 mm long in fruit, pilose, 4 long and 4 short teeth at apex; long teeth up to 1 mm long, short teeth up to 0.5 mm long.

Endemic.