Daphne mucronata

Subsp mucronata: İğircik; Subsp turcica: Çötelme

Erect shrub 0.5-3 m. Branches reddish-brown, glabrous in leafy parts. Leaves subsessile or shortly petiolate, narrowly elliptic, 40-60 x 5-9 mm, acuminate or mucronate, glabrous. Flowers fragrant, 8-14, in short terminal racemes; pedicels elongating to 5 mm. Bracts absent. Perianth sub-persistent, 9-14 mm, yellow-sericeous; lobes ovate, 4x2 mm, obtuse or broadly acute. Ovary pubescent. Fruit 7-9 mm, orange-red. Fl. 6-9. Rocky slopes of gorge, limestone, dry open fields, 1100-2280 m.

N. Iraq, Iran, Transcaucasia, Afghanistan to W. Himalayas; Arabia. Ir.-Tur. element.