Eremogone ledebouriana
Eremogone ledebouriana
İğne kumotu
Syn: Arenaria ledebouriana
Spiny, glabrous to sparsely glandular-pubescent perennial, 3-25 cm, usually cushion-forming, very rarely with spreading or ascending leafy stems. Leaves 2.5-10 mm, spiny subulate-setaceous, usually ciliate, ± glaucous, often becoming purplish; stem leaves usually in 1-5 pairs without axillary fascicles, very rarely numerous and with prominent fascicles. Inflorescence a lax to slightly contracted panicle of one to ten 2-5-flowered cymes; bracts triangular, the upper 0.5-2 mm. Sepals 2-3.5 mm, the outer broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to shortly acuminate. Petals ovate-elliptic to oblong, rarely narrowly oblanceolate, 1.25-c. 2 x longer than sepals. Staminal glands 5, distinct. Capsule c. 1 ½ x longer than calyx.
1. Petals narrowly oblong to narrowly oblanceolate, more than 4 x longer than broad; green mid-rib less than 1/2 as broad as outer sepals .............var. armeniaca
1. Petals ovate-elliptic to oblong, 1 ½ -2 ½ x longer than broad; green mid-rib 1/3 – 2/3 as broad as outer sepal
2. Flowering stems 1.5-4 cm, with 1-2 internodes below the inflorescence; inflorescence 1-3-flowered ..................var. pauciflora
2. Flowering stems 4-25 cm, with 3-6 internodes below the inflorescence; inflorescence 5-50-flowered
3. Inflorescence very lax, longest pedicels 8-25 mm; outer sepals ovate- lanceolate, long-acute, midrib 1/2-3/4 as wide as sepal ......var. parviflora
3. Inflorescence lax to rather contracted, longest pedicels 3-9 mm; outer sepals ovate, broadly acute to acuminate, mid-rib less than ½ as wide as sepal ......var. ledebouriana
Endemic.
