Brassicaceae

Aethionema diastrophis

Aethionema R. BR. Aethionema diastrophis BUNGE Ömür: Çok yıllık Yapı: otsu Hayat formu: İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 4 Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 6 Habitat: kayalık yamaç Minimum yükseklik: -1 Maksimum yükseklik: -1 Endemik: - Element: ? Türkiye dağılımı: D. Anadolu Genel dağılımı: Transkafkasya Bulunduğu kareler:A9

Ae. diastrophis Bunge, Delect. Sem. Hort. Dorpat. 7 (1841). Many-stemmed, erect perennial with simple or branched flowering stems, 15-25 cm. Leaves oblong-linear, 6-12 mm, sessile, more or less evenly distributed up the stem. Petals pale pink, 3-5-4 x 2 mm, 3-nerved at base. Filaments neither connate nor dentate, dilated at base; anthers apiculate. Inflorescence elongating in fruit. Ovary bilocular, 1 ovule in each loculus. Fruiting pedicels erect or recurved, 3-4 mm. Siliculae cymbiform, ovate, cordate below, 6-7 χ 5 mm; wings 1-2 mm, irregularly dentate to 1/2 or the whole depth of wings; sinus 1-1-5 mm; style 0-5 mm with c. 1 mm adnate to wings. Seeds 2 (or 1), not mucilaginous. Fl. 4-6. Rocky slopes.   Described from Soviet Armenia.   Armenia. A9 Kars: Arpaçay and SW of Tuzluca (Grossheim 4: map 154).   Transcaucasia. Related to Ae. grandiflonim but differing from it in the smaller flowers and fruits and the coarsely dentate margins of the fruit.