Cyclamen cilicicum
Cyclamen cilicicum
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Tuber small, 2-5 cm diam., depressed-globose, smooth, puberulous, rooting , from base. Leaves appearing with flowers in autumn, suborbicular, 1,4-3 cm long and about as wide, margins entire or obscurely and remotely denticulate. Corolla whitish or pale pink, lobes narrow, 10-18 mm, exauriculate, with or without crimson basal blotches; mouth of corolla very narrow. Style shortly exserted. Fruiting pedicels coiling spirally from apex. Fl. 9-11. Pinus nigra and Abies forest, on rocky slopes and screes under bushes, 700-2000 m.
1. Corolla lobes 15-18 mm, with a dark crimson basal blotch var. cilicium
1. Corolla lobes 10-15 mm, without a dark basal blotch var. intaminatum
The species is endemic, without any obvious allies save the closely related C. mirabile Hildebr. E. Medit. element.
