"Telmissa"

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Telmissa (from ) is a genus of herbaceous plants of the family . Includes a single species - Telmissa small fruit.

Dissemination and ecology
Eastern Mediterranean endemic. Distributed in Southwest Asia (Turkey: Southern and Eastern Anatolia (Mesopotamia); island of Cyprus, western Syria, Syrian desert; Iraq). It grows on dry limestone hills, in temporary spring puddles, in the Westerns and cracks of rocks moistened by winter rains; in the foothills from 100 to 600 m high.

Botanical description
Small naked upright annuals, ephemerals. The stems are usually simple, 5-12 cm tall, thick. The leaves are stem, linear, semi-rolling, 4-10 mm, dull at the top, sitting, turn.

The inflorescence is an apical, loose 2-4 branched, dichasium-pleiochasia, each curl of which is 8-20 flowering, spike-shaped. Flowers 3-5-dimensional, haplostem, small, sedentary. Sepals 0.3-0.5 mm long, egg-shaped, dull. Petals about 1 mm long, free, oblong, pinkish-white. Stamens 3-5, opposed to sepals; nectar scales in the number of 3-5, pin-shaped filament. Leaflets about 1.5 mm long, free, granite-prismatic, lumpy-point, free to the base, single seed. Seeds about 1 mm long, brownish. Flowering in March-May, fruiting in April-June.

kinship
Close to the genus, from which it differs mainly in single-seed, free, granite-prismatic leaflets and 3-5-dimensional, haplostem flowers.

Synonymous.

rhoda

Vide

- Small-fruit squirrel

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References

Fatty
Flora of Western Asia
Monotype plant genera