Ononis spinosa
Ononis spinosa
Ssp antiquorum; Acram; Ssp hircina : Şırbık; Ssp leiosperma: Demirdelen
Perennial with erect or ascending stems, without stolons, 30-60 cm, spinescent, with an indumentum of short pedicellate or sessile glands and longer eglandular hairs, sometimes glabrescent. Upper leaves often unifoliolate, the others trifoliolate; leaflets ovate to oblong, denticulate, 5-20 x 3-10 mm. Flowers shortly pedicellate, mainly single in the leaf-axils, forming loose racemes. Calyx campanulate, 5-10 mm, parted to 2/3-3/4 into linear-lanceolate 1-3-nerved lobes; teeth glabrescent or covered with sessile to subsessile glands, sometimes intermixed with longer eglandular hairs. Corolla pink, 6-10 mm, occasionally white, standard often with purple stripes. Legume ovate, glandular-hairy, 1-3-ovuled. Seeds orbicular, tubercled or smooth, 2 mm.
1. Seeds tubercled subsp. antiquorum ........Mediterranean area, especially in the E., Cyprus, Palestine, Iran, Beluchistan, Turkestan. Medit. element.
1. Seeds smooth subsp. leiosperma .......Balkans, Cyprus, W. Syria, N. Iraq, N. & W. Iran.
