Acantholimon acerosum
Acantholimon acerosum
Ssp acerosum: Pişikkeveni; Ssp brachystachyum: Fızık; Ssp longibracteolorum: Kirpiyastıkları
Rather densely pulvinate, glaucous to glaucous-green shrublet. Leaves linear or plano-triquetrous, 15-60 x 0.8-2.2 mm, margins scabrid. Scapes simple, equal to or 2-2.5 x leaves. Spikes usually laxly distichous, rarely compact. Spikelets 5-15. Bracts glabrous, subequal or outer bract shorter than inner bracts; outer bract triangular-lanceolate, 5-10 mm, with narrow hyaline margin; inner bracts oblong-lanceolate, to narrowly lanceolate, obtuse to acute, cuspidate, hyaline except for vein or with broad hyaline margins. Calyx tube pilose on veins; limb white or pale flesh-coloured, usually 5-lobed. Petals pink. Fl. 6-8. Rocky igneous slopes, calcareous and sandy soils, steppe, 800-2000 m.
1. Leaves less than 18 mm; inner bracts to 8 mm, hyaline except for veins ........var. parvifolium
1. Leaves more than 20 mm; inner bracts more than 9 mm, ± coriaceous, with broad hyaline margins
2. Outer bract herbaceous, usually shorter than inner bracts; lower leaves usually not strongly reflexed ................var. acerosum
2. Outer bract reddish, bracts subequal; lower leaves very strongly reflexed .......var. brachystachyum
