Bolanthus thymoides
Bolanthus thymoides
Çorak havalotu
Cushion-shaped perennial with much branched woody rhizome, forming somewhat lax 2-8 cm broad cushions with several 1-5 cm decumbent or ascendent-erect short branched stems with numerous short eglandular and less numerous long glandular hairs. Internodes short, often covered by the densely imbricate leaves. Leaves small, linear-setaceous, 3-7 x 0.3-0.5 mm, acute, rigid, fasciculate, densely glandular-pubescent, without eglandular hairs. Bracts leaf-like, about as long as the flowers. Inflorescence 4-8-flowered; flowers sessile, congested in small sessile or subsessile terminal or subterminal clusters. Calyx tubular, 4-5 mm, glandular-hairy, with 5 projecting ribs, teeth lanceolate, acute, 0,5-1 mm. Petals white with purple veins, 5-6 mm, linear oblong, truncate. Ovary 12-ovulate. Capsule oblong, 3 x 1,5 mm. Seeds with prominent radicle, 1,5 mm, with flat tubercles. Fl. 6-7. Steppe, dry hillsides, 1180-1660 m.
Endemic.
