Hyoscyamus aureus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Solanales
Family: Solanaceae
Genus: Hyoscyamus
Species:
H. aureus
Binomial name
Hyoscyamus aureus
L.

Hyoscyamus aureus, the yellow henbane,[1] is a species of plant in the family Solanaceae native to the Eastern Mediterranean and Iraq.[2]

Description

A very sticky long-haired perennial, often densely sprawling, the flowers are asymmetric (petals are placed in an upper position), golden yellow with purple throat and stamens and style long-protrude. After flowering the inflorescence elongates greatly and on withering small plants may form at their ends. The leaves are roundish to egg-shaped with irregular edges, long stalk (to 3 cm) and variable base.[3]

Similar species include: Hyoscyamus albus (flowers paler yellow, stamens not protruding), Hyoscyamus niger (plants upright, flowers lurid yellow with purple veins and speckles). (In its early vegetative stages it may also be confused with Ecballium elaterium which has coarse hairs and very prominent net veins under the leaf.)

Sources Flora Europaea,[4] Flora of Turkey.[5]

Proliferation from the inflorescence tip

Habitat

Turkey: Rock crevices, old walls, ruins, 0–1200 m.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Yellow Henbane (Hyoscyamus aureus)". iNaturalist.
  2. ↑ "Hyoscyamus aureus L. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online.
  3. ↑ "Photos of Yellow Henbane (Hyoscyamus aureus) · iNaturalist". iNaturalist.
  4. ↑ Tutin. Flora Europaea, vol. 3.
  5. 1 2 Davis. Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, vol. 6.


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