LYDIUM Boissier, 1843
Distribution : West Turkey; damp mossy places on mountains.
Description (according to 't Hart & Bleij in IHSP, 2003) :
Perennial herbs, glabrous, ascending, 5 - 10 cm tall, with ccreeping and rooting branches and perennating sterile rosettes.
Leaves alternate, imbricate, linear, terete, ± 6 mm, obtuse, sessile, green red-tipped.
Inflorescences dense corymbs 1 - 2 cm in diameter with (7-) 10 - 20 flowers.
Flowers 5-merous, pedicellate, sepals ± 2 mm, acute, petals ± 3 mm, white with red mid-vein.
Boz Dağı, 1310 m, May 2014 :
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Photos Ray Stephenson
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