Daphne pontica
Daphne pontica
Ssp pontica: Sırımağu
Erect shrub. sparingly branched, 40-100 cm. Young shoots leafy, glabrous; older branches naked, bark purplish-brown. Leaves subsessile, coriaceous, obovate, 30-80 x 15-30 mm , acute, rarely obtuse, glabrous. Flowers axillary, usually paired, slightly fragrant. Peduncles 10-20 mm, pedicels 3-8 mm, Perianth 15-25 mm, greenish-yellow, glabrous; lobes lanceolate, 8-10 mm, acute. Ovary glabrous at maturity. Fruit ovoid or subglobose, 7-8 mm, black. Fl. 3-8. On igneous rock, limestone slopes, edge ofAbies-Fagus forest, in Rhododendron and Corylus woodland, s.l.-2200 m,
S.E. Bulgaria, Caucasia . N. Iran. Euxine element.
