Eryngium palmito
| Eryngium palmito | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Apiaceae |
| Genus: | Eryngium |
| Species: | E. palmito
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| Binomial name | |
| Eryngium palmito Boiss. & Heldr. [1]
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Eryngium palmito, in Turkish has boğadikeni (roughly meaning Rarefied Eryngo),[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, endemic to Turkey.[1]
Description and Habitat
A moderately tall Eryngo (50 cm or more) with a small number of upright stems. Its base leaves are grassy looking, and when examined each leaf dissects into 5-7 long, grassy lobes (2-3 mm wide); the stem leaves are similar (5-divided) but less prominent, their bases sheathing the stem. The stems mature bluish-grey with a narrow display of a small number of heads, appearing August. At the base of each flower head is a whorl of 5-6 slender spine-leaves that are larger than the heads, and within a head each small flower is attended by a smallish spine, mostly simple but the outer ones may be 3-parted. It naturally grows in pine forests at high altitude (1500 m). Photos.
It is distinguished in Turkey from other Eryngium with grassy leaves by the higher number (5-7) of long grassy lobes on the base leaves, in Eryngium trisectum they are divided into 3-4(5),[3] whilst Eryngium wanaturi leaves are undivided (to 1 cm wide). Beyond Turkey its allies are Eryngium ternatum (Crete; basal leaves dividing into 1-3 long lobes, floral bracteoles all 3-parted) and Eryngium serbicum (NW. Balkan Peninsula & Albania; basal leaves dividing into 4-5, whorled bracts 7-8).[4][5]
Distribution
It is endemic to Turkey,[1] growing near the Antalya region to its north and east.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Plants of the World Online (with map)
- ^ a b "bizimbitkiler.org (with map)".
- ^ Arno Wörz; Hayri Duman (2004). "Eryngium trisectum (Apiaceae, Saniculoideae), a new species from Turkey" (PDF).
- ^ PH Davis (1972). Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 4.
- ^ Hermann Wolff; Adolf Engler. Das Pflanzenreich IV 228 Umbelliferae-Saniculoideae, 1913.