Delphinium sclerocladum
Delphinium sclerocladum
Sert mahmuz
Plant 30-50 cm, usually adpressed-canescent, sometimes with a sprinkling of yellow, spreading, glandular hairs, or glabrescent, often rigidly branched. Leaf laciniae linear-lanceolate. Flowers lavender . Corolla 5-lobed; intermediate lobes broadly triangular, acute, slightly shorter the upper lobe; lateral lobes ovate, obtuse,separated from the intermediate lobes by a narrow sinus; spur short, apex circinately involute. Follicle semi-obovate, 6-9 x2-3 mm, rounded at apex or subgibbous, abruptly rostrate. FI. 6-7.
Variable in the angle of branching and in the thickness of its branches.
Two variants can be recognised in Turkey:
1. Stem puberulous with spreading, glandular hairs; branches stout and rigid var. scleroclada
1. Stems adpressed-puberulous, eglandular; branches rigid or slender var. rigida
Distribution of the species: W. Syria and Syrian Desert.
