Haplophyllum myrtifolium
Haplophyllum myrtifolium
Murt sedosu
Plant 10-20 cm, ± densely furnished with crisped or patent white hairs. Leaves lanceolate to lanceolate-obovate or ovate, densely white-hairy, sessile. Inflorescence compact, densely patent or crisped-hairy. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, white-lanate. Petals oblong-ovate, creamy-yellow to almost white, 6,5-9 mm. Filaments narrow, gradually attenuate from base to apex. Young ovary segments biovulate, densely white-hairy, with a long ± incurved apical tuberculate appendage. Capsule glabrous to densely white-lanate, appearing transversely whiterugose from the irregularly confluent margins of the punctate glands, each segment with a very prominent, often comma-shaped apical appendage. Seeds interruptedly longitudinally ridged. Fl. 5-6. Rocky limestone or igneous slopes, steppe, 750-2150 m.
Endemic. Ir.-Tur. element.
