Dianthus tripunctatus
Dianthus tripunctatus
Benekli karanfil
Glabrous annual, 20-50 cm. Lower cauline leaves 1-3 mm wide, linear, tapered from the middle into the long acute apex. Upper leaves adpressed. Inflorescence freely branched, flowers solitary at the ends of long pedicels which are thickened immediately below the flower. Bracteoles 4, aristate, points equalling the calyx tube, enervate and verruculose below, nerved and with a conspicuous membranous margin about 2 mm wide above. Calyx verruculose, 18-20 x 5 mm, markedly ventricose, nervose-striate; teeth 5-7 mm, lanceolate, acute, sometimes mucronate, with a narrow membranous margin. Petal limb pink, yellow at base, 6-8 mm, narrowly obovate, barbulate, dentate. Fl. 5-6. Roadsides, fields, cliffs, s.l.-70 m.
Greece, Italy, Portugal, N.W. Africa, Cyprus, Palestine, Syrian Desert, W. Iran, Sinai. Medit. element?
