Acantholimon hohenackeri

Yamaç kardikeni

Rather compactly pulvinate subhemispherical shrubs, up to 20-30 cm in diameter; summer leaves glaucous -green or pale glaucous, applanate-triquetrous, linear -subulate, rigid, 1.5-2 cm long and ca. 0.5-1 mm broad, acerose, glabrous, the margin ciliate-scabrous; spring leaves slightly shorter and broader, otherwise alike; scapes mostly fairly markedly exceeding the leaves, 5-10 cm long, with 1-3 rather short branches at the top, rather gently and minutely puberulous; spikes loose, distinctly 2-ranked, 5-10-spiculed, the joints about equaling the bracts; spicules ca. 11-13 mm long, all single -flowered; bracts glabrous; outer bract ca. 4-5 mm long, about two -thirds the length of the inner ones, oblong-ovate, gradually acuminate, mucronate, rather narrowly scarious -margined; inner bracts about equaling the calyx tube, broadly or very broadly scarious -margined, obtusely acuminate or round-tipped, mucronate or muticous; calyx ca. 10-12 mm long, funnelform, the tube ca. 6-7 mm long, rather densely covered between the nerves with long hairs; calyx limb ca. 4 mm broad, white, rather distinctly 10-lobed, the nerves hairy in lower part, reaching the margin or scarcely excurrent. Fl. June -August. Stony mountain slopes, at altitudes of 1200-2400 m. — Caucasus: E. and S. Transc. , Tal. Gen. distr. : Arm. -Kurd. , Iran. .