Arenaria deflexa
Arenaria deflexa
Eğri kumotu
Densely glandular-pubescent, fragile, mat-forming perennial, 5-40 cm. Leaves 5-15 mm, oblanceolate-elliptic, acute to acuminate, gradually narrowing into a petiole. Inflorescence 3-15-flowered; bracts 1-4 mm, narrowly triangular to subulate-setaceous, markedly different from uppermost leaves; pedicels 10-20 mm, slender, that of lowest flower less that 0,2 mm in diam. Sepals 2,5-5 mm, narrowly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, attenuate, a little longer than calyx. Capsule narrowly ovoid, exceeding calyx. Seeds o·5-0·7 mm, tuberculate; tubercles with a short central papilla c. 10 microns.
1. Outer sepals 2,5-3 mm, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2½–3 ½x longer than broad, acuminate .......subsp. microsepala
1. Outer sepals 3,5-5 mm, or if shorter then acute
2. Outer sepals 4-5 mm, narrowly lanceolate, more than 3 ½ x longer than broad ...............subsp. deflexa
2. Outer sepals 3-4 mm, ovate-lanceolate, 2 ½ -3 x longer than broad
3. Petals oblanceolate, 2 ½ -3 ½ x longer than broad; pedicels stout, that of lowest flower 0,3 mm diam. ..subsp. pseudofragillima
3. Petals linear-lanceolate, 4-5 x longer than broad; pedicels slender, c.0,1 mm diam. ...........subsp. pubescens
