Acantholimon riyatguelii
Acantholimon riyatguelii
Bozkır kardikeni
Dwarf subshrub, laxly caespitose, pale green to glaucous, woody at the base, with several short swollen fleshy branches and strongly developed deep root system. Branches 2–4 cm long, swollen, diffuse, densely leafy at the apex. Leaves 3–8 × 1.5–2 mm, yellowish-green to glaucous, linear to oblong-linear, subterete, fleshy swollen, pilose mostly on margins, mucronate , not pungent, calcareous-punctate, dense or laxly rosulate, with a broad hyaline sheath at the base. Scapes 0.8–1.5 cm, densely puberulent, as long as or slightly exceeding leaves, 1-spicate; scales 2–3, hyaline on margins, cuspidate, the lowermost shorter than internodes, the upper ones mostly longer or as long as internodes. Spikes 1.5–4 cm long, densely distichous, much exceeding leaves. Spikelets 7–20, 1-flowered, 12–14 mm long, quite regularly imbricate, all flowers well developed, internodes very short. Bracts subequal, pale green to reddish; outer bract 6–7 mm, ovate, cuspidate, densely pilose, herbaceous in the central part, with broad hyaline margins, as long as calyx tube; inner bracts 5–7 mm, oblong-lanceolate to narrow lanceolate, cuspidate, hyaline with reddish midrib. Calyx 8–10 mm long, infundibular, 5-ribbed, sparsely pilose on ribs; limb 3–4 mm in diameter, whitish-hyaline, with 5 acute lobes; ribs not excurrent, lower half green, upper half reddish; tube 5–7 mm, pilose. Petals 10–11 mm long, purple, slightly notched. Stamens 5; filaments 6–7 mm, white; anthers about 1 mm long, purple. Styles 5, 6–7 mm long, white. Stigma oblong-elliptic, yellowish. Fruit about 5 × 1–1.5 mm, linear, 5-angled, scabrid-papillose on the upper part.
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