Cyclamen pseudibericum
Cyclamen pseudibericum
Köstüköpeği
Tuber 2-3 cm diam., depressed globose, rather fissured and corky, rooting from base. Leaves appearing before flowers in early spring, broadly cordate, 2,5-5 cm long and about as wide, usually marbled and often rather glossy above, margins frequently with well-marked teeth. Corolla vivid magenta with a very conspicuous dark basal blotch surrounding a large, white or pallid, basal eye, exauriculate, lobes 15-25 mm, broadly ovate, acute or obtuse. Style distinctly exserted. Fruiting pedicel coiling from apex. 2n = 30. Fl. 3-5. Pinus brutia forest, Fagus-Ostrya scrub on limestone, metamorphic or igneous rocks, 550-1500 m.
Endemic. E. Medit. element. Allied to C. coum Miller.
