Verbascum lydium
Verbascum lydium
Akgömlek
Biennial, 40-130 cm, densely covered with long branched floccose hairs and shorter persistent glandular hairs. Stem robust, terete, branched. Basal leaves oblong to obovate-oblong and lanceolate, 10-40 x 4-16 cm, coarsely crenate, sessile or with winged petiole to 5 cm; upper cauline rounded or auriculate at base, crenate-dentate, acute or acuminate. Inflorescence ± lax; branched, rarely simple, with clusters of 2-7 flowers. Lower bracts lanceolate, acuminate, denticulate, upper linear-setaceous. Pedicels 2-7 mm; bracteoles linear-lanceolate. Calyx 5-8 mm, lobes lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acute. Corolla yellow, 25-35 mm diam., with pellucid glands, sparsely tomentose outside. Stamens 5, anthers all reniform or 2 anterior decurrent, filaments with purple-violet wool, 2 anterior glabrous near apex. Capsule broadly elliptic to subglobose, 5-6 x 4-5 mm, tomentose, glabrescent. Fl. 5-6. Pastures, roadsides, Pinus forest, macchie, s.l.-1400 m.
1. Anthers all reniform, medifixed; cauline leaves not decurrent ..................................................var.lydium
1. Anthers of 2 lower stamens decurrent; cauline leaves sometimes shortly decurrent .............var. heterandrum
