Acantholimon laxiflorum
Acantholimon laxiflorum
Uzun kirpiotu
Syn: A.venustum var laxiflorum
Laxly pulvinate, glaucous-green shrublet; base of previous leaves persistent, circinnate. Leaves green to glaucous-green, linear-triquetrous, subulate, 18-65 x 1- 1.5 mm, margins scabrid, narrow hyaline on lower parts, with yellowish spiny tip to 1.5 mm. Scapes simple, 18-38 cm, distinctly longer than leaves, glabrous. Spikes simple, laxly distichous, 15-30 cm. Spikelets 16-36, 1-flowered, 13-15 mm, shorter than internodes in lower part, equal or longer than in upper part. Outer bract distinctly shorter than inner bracts, herbaceous, ovatetriangular, 6-8 mm, with narrow hyaline margin, acuminate, shortly cuspidate, glabrous; inner bracts 9-11 mm, oblong-lanceolate, with broad hyaline margins, acuminate-cuspidate, longer ones pilose, shorter glabrous. Calyx infundibular, 11-14 mm, sparsely pilose on tube ; limb brownish or rarely dirty white, 10-lobed, lobes truncate-obtuse, margins erose, c. 8-9 mm in diameter; veins dark brown, not excurrent, sparsely pilose below, glabrous above. Petals pink.
W. Syria, N. Iraq. Ir.-Tur. element.
