Eryngium babadaghense
| Eryngium babadaghense | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Apiaceae |
| Genus: | Eryngium |
| Species: | E. babadaghense
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| Binomial name | |
| Eryngium babadaghense G.E.Genç, Akalın & Wörz [1]
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Eryngium babadaghense, or baba boğadiken in Turkish,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, endemic to southwest Turkey.
Description and Habitat
An Eryngo with moderately sized stems (to 75 cm) and complex fine-lobed leaves, becoming bluish at maturity. Each flowerhead is surrounded by 6-10 slender spine-leaves (2-7 cm), and within the head each small flower is attended by a largish spine (9-18 mm, simple, except the outer ones may be divided into 3).
It grows in Fethiye (Muğla), southwest Turkey, at 1400-1700 m on serpentine ground, and takes its name from its Babadağ ("Mt. Baba") site.
In Turkey it most resembles Eryngium kotschyi, differing by its base leaves being finer (width 2-3 mm, not to 7 mm), its stem leaves being finer (0.5-1 mm not 1-2 mm) with much longer terminal lobe (6-11 cm not 5-6 cm), larger whorled leaves under the heads, among other differences; and also Eryngium glomeratum (whose leaf lobes are substantially wider), both being present in the southwest of Turkey.[3] Photos.
Distribution
It is endemic to Turkey.[1]
References
- ^ a b Plants of the World Online (with map)
- ^ "bizimbitkiler.org (with map)".
- ^ Gülay Ecevi̇t Genç; Emine Akalin Uruşak; Arno Wörz (2012). "A new species of Eryngium (Apiaceae) from Turkey: Eryngium babadaghensis".