Saponaria kotschyi
Saponaria kotschyi
Yar sabunotu
Annual or biennial herb, divaricately branched from the base, with a thick indumentum of glandular and eglandular hairs covering the whole plant; stems procumbent or ascending, 20-30 cm. Basal leaves broad, obovate-spathulate, petiolate; cauline leaves oblong-lanceolate, subsessile. Corymbs many-flowered, loose. Pedicels 2-4 mm, erect-spreading. Calyx narrowly cylindrical, striate, 9-12 mm with very short acute teeth. Petals 13-15 mm, pink with an obovate, entire lamina which has a bipartite coronal appendage at the base, and a narrow claw. Capsule narrowly oblong, c.7 mm, attenuate at both ends. Seeds 1-2. FI. 5-9. Rocky slopes and screes, 850-1400 m.
Endemic.
