Verbascum carmanicum (Bornm.) Hub.

Sotoodeh, Arash, Attar, Farideh, Andalo, Christophe, Mirtadzadini, Mansour & Civeyrel, Laure, 2018, Focusing on three Verbascum L. taxa (Scrophulariaceae) of the Flora of Iran, Adansonia (3) 40 (13), pp. 171-181 : 177-178

Verbascum carmanicum (Bornm.) Hub. -Mor.

In Bauhinia 5: 11 (1973).

Celsia carmanica Bornm., Oesterreichische botanische Zeitschrift 49: 51 (1899).

DESCRIPTION

Plant biennial, 50 to 200 cm height, covered in densely stellate, yellowish-gray hairs.

Stem

Robust, leafy, round at the bottom, but a bit angular, and branched at top.

Basal leaves

Have long petioles, lamina up to 20 cm long, 4-7 cm wide, ovate or ovate-oblong, sinuated, 2-4 lobes, obtuse.

Lower stem leaves

Similar to the basal ones, but with shorter petioles, upper leaves sub-sessile, oval, lobed-toothed; at top: sessile, sub-entire.

Inflorescence

Loose, many simple branches, up to 90 cm long.

Bracts

Small, ovate or triangular-ovate, entire, up to 10 mm, shorter, same as or longer than fruiting pedicel.

Pedicel (fruiting)

Sessile or up to 5 mm long, thick, ± erect.

Calyx

Lobes 4-6 mm long, oblong-linear, acute, covered with stellate and glandular hairs.

Corolla color

Yellow, but Huber-Morath (1981) described its color as violet. Nevertheless, we noticed repeatedly that corolla color changes after drying to turn very dark.

Corolla

18-22 mm diam., abaxial surface covered with sparse stellate hairs.

Stamens

Four, one third of top part of two anterior filaments are naked, the rest covered densely with long purple hairs.

Anthers

Reniform and medifix.

Capsule

Pyramid-ovoid, 7-10 mm long, 4.5-7 mm wide, hairy.