Tordylium aegyptiacum
Tordylium aegyptiacum
Kır davulotu
Pilose to villous annual, branching at and above the middle of the stem. Stems erect, 25-60 cm high, striate to slightly angular. Basal and lower cauline leaves 1-3-pinnate, leaflets with biparted lobes; upper cauline leaves 1-2-pinnate with narrow biparted lobes. Umbels 6-14-rayed with a sterile, purplish-black structure in the middle, rays unequal, slender, slightly scabrous, ascending after anthesis. Bracts nearly obsolete to occasional 1-2; bracteoles 1-3, linear, scabrous, deflexed. Flowers white, 10-20 per umbellule. Mericarps dimorphic: peripheral ones in the umbellules compressed, elliptic to orbicular, 8-10 x 7-10 mm, with a thin wing and slightly moniliform thickened margins; inner ones hemispherical, c. 4 mm diam., unicarpellate at maturity; abaxial face with thin hairs or entirely glabrous. Dorsal vittae 4, median ones often interrupted in the middle, commissural 2. FI. 4-5. Roadsides, fields, waste places, 400-600 m.
Cyprus, W. Syria, Syrian Desert, N. Iraq, Egypt. E. Medit. element.
