Delphinium vanense
Delphinium vanense
Yiğit hezaren
Syn: Delphinium cyphoplectrum var vanense
Slender perennial, 25-60 cm, upper part of stem crisply puberulent, glandular-pubescent or glabrous. Stem flexuose, terete, striate. Median cauline leaves long-petioled with narrowly vaginate bases, 3-10 cm across, multisect into linear laciniae. Raceme linear, lax, 2-3.5 cm broad. Bracts linear-lanceolate, much shorter than pedicels; bracteoles similar, attached near base of pedicels, rarely median. Flowers varying from deep violet-blue to dirty white, 16-24 mm; sepals widely spreading; petals ± exserted; spur about as long as sepals, tapering and subacute or ± cylindrical, obtuse or subsaccate. Follicles pubescent or glabrous. Three varieties can be provisionally recognised in Turkey:
1. Inflorescence crisped-puberulent; spur tapering, subacute; flowers 16-20 mm, dusky violet.......................... var. stenophyllum
1. Inflorescence glandular-pubescent or glabrous; spur ± cylindrical, obtuse or subsaccate; flowers 20-24 mm
2. Flowers deep violet-blue; laciniae of median leaves less than 1 mm broad ...................................................var. vanense
1. Inflorescence crisped-puberulent; spur tapering, subacute; flowers 16-20 mm, dusky violet.......................... var. stenophyllum
1. Inflorescence glandular-pubescent or glabrous; spur ± cylindrical, obtuse or subsaccate; flowers 20-24 mm
2. Flowers deep violet-blue; laciniae of median leaves less than 1 mm broad ...................................................var. vanense
2. Flowers whitish; laciniae of median leaves broader ........................................................................................var. pallidiflorum
D. cyphoplectrum is a very polymorphic, Irano-Turanian species, widespread in parts of Iran, Transcaucasia and N. Iraq.
