Thymelaea hirsuta
Thymelaea hirsuta
Tüylüçekem
Dioecious or polygamodioecious shrub, 20-150 cm . Young and flowering shoots white-tomentose, older branches divergent, becoming pendent and glabrous. Leaves incurved, sessile, thick-coriaceous, margins involute, orbicular-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 3-5 x 1.5-3 mm, obtuse or acute, adaxial surface white-tomentose or lanate, abaxial green, glabrous. Flowers sessile, villous tufted at base, 2-8, terminal. Bracts absent. Perianth deciduous, 3-4.5 mm, greyish-pubescent or white-tomentose, yellow within; lobes ovate, 1-1.5 mm, obtuse. Fruit ovoid, c. 4 mm, minutely puberulous or glabrous. Fl. 9-12. Sandy and stony places, especially nr sea
Mediterranean area. Medit. element.
