Verbascum yurtkuranianum
Verbascum yurtkuranianum
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Biennial, 90-120 cm., glabrous below, densely covered with long glanduler hairs above. Stem solitary, erect, simple or branched, robust, angular, sulcate. Basal leaves long petiolate, lamina ovate-oblong to broadly ovate, 6-15.5 X 2-6.5 cm, crenate,upper and lower surfaces glabrous, petiole 3-12.5 cm. Cauline leaves ovate to oblong, sessile, cuneate or broadly cuneate at base, prominently long acuminate, 3-6X 1-2 cm, entire, upper and lower surfaces densely glanduler-hairy. Inflorescense unbranched or branched, lax, cylindrical, 60-70cm, many-flowered, densely glanduler-hairy. Bracts similar to cauline leaves but smaller, 10-50 X 1.5-10 mm, long acuminate, entire, upper and lower surfaces with glanduler hairs. Each bract with a single flower, ebracteolate. Pedicels glanduler hairy, ascending to erect up to 6 mm. Calyx 6-13 mm, asymmetrically divided almost to base into 2 ovate-lanceolate and acute lower lobes, others narrower with dense glanduler hairs outside and inside. Corolla violet, rotate, 15-20 mm diameter, tube 2 mm., sparsely glanduler hairy outside, lobes unequal, lower lobe white with purplish lines, orbicular, emarginate at apex. Stamens 4, 2 posterior filaments with whitish-violet wooly up to anthers, 2 anterior ones woolly at base, glabrous near apex and anthers of anterior filaments longitudinally decurrent, 4-5mm. Anthers of two posterior filaments medifixed, yellowish woolly, invisible. Ovary 2 mm., densely glanduler hairy, Stilus filiform, 0.5-1 cm., curved, sparsely glanduler hairy to glabrous, stigma 0.2mm, almost glabrous. Capsule ovoid to globose, 5-7X 5-6 mm., densely covered with glanduler hairs. Seeds 0.8 mm., anguler, rugose, black. Flowering in April-May, fruiting in June-July.
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