Scorzonera yildirimlii

Pir tekesakalı

Subscapigerous perennial herb. Rootstock thick, cylindrical. Stems scapiform 1-3 , 2-8 cm long and c. 1 mm diam., striate, base of previous leaves persistent and leafy in 1/3 of stem below, leafy part dull white. Leaves conduplicate, glabrescent or glabrous, entire, linear or linear-lanceolate, usually falcate, greenish above, purplish below, semiamplexicaul at base, 2-7 cm long, 1.5-3 mm wide. Capitula 1 per stem, homogamous, ligulate, 12-16 mm long, 4-8 mm wide. Outer phyllaries 4-7 mm long, 0.5-1.2 mm wide, linear or linear-lanceolate, glabrous, c. 1/2 x inner phyllaries; inner phyllaries 10-15 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious margin, greenish, glabrous. Corolla yellow, equalling or longer than involucre, 9-12 mm long, ligules 5 toothed, lobes c. 0.5 mm long; style branches filiform, c. 3 mm long per branch, papillose, obtuse, shorter than ligule. Achenes immature, c. 6 mm long, cylindrical, slender, glabrous; pappus 10-13 mm long, straw coloured, pappus hairs barbellate and plumose below, barbellate above. Fl. 6-7, alpine steppe, 1900-2000 m a.s.l.

Endemic.