Asphodeline damascena
Asphodeline damascena
ssp damascena: Çekiçlik; ssp gigantea: Harmel; Ssp ovoidea: Siyek; Ssp rugosa: Elbizotu
Biennial. Flowering stems 45-170 cm, erect, slender to stout, somewhat leafy to 7/10 of its length or all leaves basal. Leaves glaucous, margins scabrid. Inflorescence simple or branched, laxly to densely flowered. Bracts 20-30 mm, lanceo1ate to ovate. Fruiting pedicels 20-25 mm, jointed above, at or below the middle. Perianth segments 15-20 mm, white, often later becoming pale pinkish-white. Capsule pyriform, obovoid, obtrigonous, oblong to cylindrical or ovoid, 9-10 mm; carpels smooth or transversely rugose with 1-5 wrinkles or contractions, deeply longitudinally sulcate between carpels or not. Fl. 5-7. Rocky or stony slopes, alpine meadows, steppe, forest clearings, river banks, fallow fields, 370-2000 m.
1. Stems leafy in lower 2/5-7/10; plants very tall ..............subsp. gigantea
1. Stems less leafy or all leaves basal; plants usually shorter, 45-100 cm
2. Capsule ± ovoid; loculi in transverse section ± stellate in outline; seeds 5-5.5 mm ..........subsp.ovoidea
2. Capsule obovoid, obtrigonous, pyriform or oblong to cylindrical; loculi in transverse section ± triangular to rounded in outline; seeds 4-4.5 mm
3. Fresh capsule obviously transverse1y 3-4-rugose on carpels, longitudinaliy deeply sulcate between them .....subsp. rugosa
3. Fresh capsule occasionally with one contraction at the middle of carpels, usually not contracted, not or only very slightly sulcate between them ......................................................................................susbp. damascena
