TORDYLIUM HIRTOCARPUM

Family and Genus:- See- UMBELLIFERAE

Common Names:- None

Homotypic Synonyms: None

Meaning:- Tordylium (Gr) A name used by the Greek physician and botanist

Dioscorides for an umbellifer.

Hirtocarpum (L) With hairy fruits.

General description:- Erect, soft-pubescent annual.

Stem:-

1) 10-30 cm tall. sparingly branched from the base.

Leaves:-

1) Basal, simple or pinnate, with 1-3 pairs of ovate, crenate leaflets.

2) Upper cauline, simple, lanceolate.

Flowers:-

1) Rays 2-3(-5), subequal.

2) Bracts and bractlets, broadly lanceolate, patent or slightly deflexed.

3) Petals, white.

a) outer, 1-2 mm. radiant and divided into 2 very unequal lobes.

Fruit:-

1) 5-6 mm. broadly elliptic-ovate, with a thickened, whitish, corrulgated margin.

dorsal face villous with very thin hairs.

Key features:-

1) Radiant petals, 1-2 mm long.

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Habitat:- Limestone cliffs, screes and rocky slopes, sometimes in coniferous

woodland, 0-700(-1200) m.

Distribution:- Reported from a few localities in W Anatolia.

Flowering time:- April-May.

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