Verbascum gypsicola
Verbascum gypsicola
Mermer sığırkuyruğu
Caespitose perennial, with thick, woody rootstock, densely white woolly tomentose. Stem erect to ascending, unbranched, terete, 20-40 cm, Leaves mostly congested at base; basal leaves narrowly elliptic-oblong, 3-14 x 0,4-1,2 cm, crenate, obtuse to acute, attenuate into a 1-3 cm long petiole; cauline leaves similar but smaller; upper sessile, lanceolate. Inflorescence loosely cylindrical, 5-16 cm, usually simple or with sparse short branches at base, with loose clusters of 1-4 flowers. Bracts ovate-lanceolate to linear, acute or acuminate, 2-5 mm, lower caudate to 10 mm. Longest pedicels as long as calyx, up to 5 mm; bracteoles 2, 1-2 mm. Calyx 4-6 mm, lobes lanceolate, acute. Corolla yellow, 12-20 mm diam., with pellucid glands, densely stellate tomentose outside; tube 1-1.5 mm; lobes suborbicular. Stamens 5, anthers reniform, filaments with whitish yellow wool up to anthers. Style 6-7 mm. Capsule oblong-ovoid; 4-5 X2.5-4 mm, tomentose; Seed blackish, pitted, oblong-ovoid, obtuse, c. 1 x 0.6 mm. FI. 6-7. on gypsaceous slopes in steppe. c. 500-800 m.
Endemic. Ir-Tur element.
