SANAL HERBARYUM YÖNETİM SİSTEMİ (SHYS)

A. acerosum (Willd.) Boiss., Diagn. ser. l(7):80(1846). Syn: Statice acerosa Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Neue Schr. 3:420 (1801). Figures 15 & 16.

  Rather densely pulvinate, glaucous to glaucous-green shrublet. Leaves linear or piano-triquetrous, 15-60 x 0.8-2.2 mm, margins scabrid. Scapes simple, equal to or 2-2.5 mm x leaves. Spikes usually laxly distichous, rarely compact. Spikelets 5-15. Bracts glabrous, subequal or outer bract shorter than inner bracts; outer bract triangular-lanceolate, 5-10 mm, with narrow hyaline margin; inner bracts oblong-lanceolate, to narrowly lanceolate, obtuse to acute, cuspidate, hyaline except for vein or with broad hyaline margins. Calyx tube pilose on veins; limb white or pale flesh-coloured, usually 5-lobed. Petals pink. Fl. 6-8. Rocky igneous slopes, calcareous and sandy soils, steppe, (20-)800-2000 m.

1. Leaves less than 18 mm; inner bracts to 8 mm, hyaline except for veins var. parvifolium

1. Leaves more than 20 mm; inner bracts more than 9 mm, ± coriaceous, with broad hyaline margins

  2. Outer bract herbaceous, usually shorter than inner bracts; lower leaves usually not strongly reflexed var. acerosum

  2. Outer bract reddish, bracts subequal; lower leaves very strongly reflexed var. brachystachyum

var. acerosum. Syn: A. assyriacum Boiss. var. micracme Náb. & Bornm. in Publ. Fac. Sci. Univ. Masaryk Brno 3:420 (1929). Map 62.

  Type: [E. Turkey] 'Armenia' (Limonium orientale frutescens caryophylli folio in aculeum rigidissimum abeunte), Tournefort.

  Widespread in Anatolia, except the S.E.; Islands. A3 Bolu: above AbantG., 27 vii 1937, B. Post! A4 Ankara: 57 km from Ankara to Çankiri, 1120 m, Buttler 21564! A5 Çorum: Kös Da., 500 m, Watson 3520! A6 Sivas: Yildiz Da., Çirçir, 1500 m, Tobey 2345! A7 Giresun: Şebinkarahisar, D. 20459! A9 Kars: 26 km from Benliahmet to Kağizman, 1870 m, D. 46652! Bl Manisa: Manisa Da., 1844, Boiss. B3 Eskişehir: Sündiken Da., 400-500 m, Ekim 923! B4 Ankara: Beynam S. of Ankara, 825 m, D. 13022! B5 Yozgat: 4 km from Sorgun, 1410 m, Hub.-Mor. 14462! B6 Sivas: 21 km from Zara to Arapkir, 1440 m, Buttler 15742! B7 Erzincan: Keşiş Da. above Cimin, 1900-2100 m, D. 31722! B9 Ağri: W. side of Tahir pass (Horasan to Eleşkirt), 2350 m, D. 47309! C2 Denizli: Boz Da. between Abbas and Geyran Y., 1650 m, D. 13316! C3 Burdur: 3 km N. of Burdur, 1020 m, Hub.-Mor. 8168! C4 Konya: 35 km from Konya to Beyşehir, 1510 m, Buttler & Uzunoğlu 13648! C5 Niğde: Ala Da., on Demir Kazik, Findlay 128! C7 Adıyaman: Nemrut Da. above Kahta, 1600-2250 m, Hand.-Mazz. 2108! Is: Samos, mt. Kerkis, Fors.-Maj. 482!

  W. Syria, N. Iraq, Soviet Armenia, N.W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.

var. brachystachyum Boiss., Fl. Or. 4:838 (1879). Syn: A. tchihatcheffii Fisch. & Mey. in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 4, 1:30 (1843);A. phrygium Boiss., Diagn. ser. 1(7):79 (1846);A. pinardii Boiss., loc. cit. (1846); A. listoniae Boiss. in DC, Prodr. 12:631 (1848); A. acerosum (Willd.) Boiss. var. pinardii (Boiss.)

Mobayen, Revis. Taxon. Acanthol. 179 (1964). Ic: Tchihat., Asie Min. Bot., Atlas t. 36(1860). Map 62.

  Described from numerous Turkish syntypes.

  W. & C. Anatolia. A4 Çankiri: nr Çankiri, 800-900 m, Bornm. 1929:13526! Bl Manisa: Sipylus (Manisa Da.) above Manisa, Bal. 1854:284! B3 Konya: Sultan Da. above Akşehir, 1000-1100 m, Bornm. 1899:5511! B4 Konya: nr Kulukessi, 1030 m, Tchihatcheff (as A. pinardii). B6 Tokat: Çamlibel Da. 14 km N. of Yildizeli, 1400 m, McPhail & Watson 5752! C3 Isparta: S. of Eğridir, Hub.-Mor. 8166! C4 Konya: Kara Da., Andrasovszky 573. C5 Içel: Gülek Kale, Kotschy 1853:99!

  Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element. A record from C9 Hakkari (mt. Harefta between Başkale and Koçanis, 2800 m, Nábělek 2717) is doubtful.

var. parvifolium Bokhari in Notes R.B.G. Edinb. 30:300 (1970). Map 62.

  Type: Turkey B6 Maraş: above Göksun, top of pass, 1070 m, [22 viii 1969],Darrah 711(holo. E!).

  E. Anatolia. B7 Tunceli: Pertek to Hozat, 1600 m, D. 31059!

  Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element. A. acerosum s.l. is highly polymorphic and the most widely distributed species in Turkey. Together with A. caryophyllaceum, A. armenum and A. kotschyi it forms a species complex which presents considerable difficulties in separating the different species, but the relative length of the leaves, bracts and spikes, and the bract indumentum can still be usefully employed to delimit them.