ورخة قزمة

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Basal and lower cauline leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, 5–12 × 1–3 cm, with a large terminal lobe and smaller lateral lobes; upper leaves smaller, entire or dentate, sessile and semiamplexicaul. Surfaces green and slightly pubescent above, whitish-tomentose beneath.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula solitary or few, terminal, 2–3 cm in diameter, discoid (without rays). Involucre campanulate, 10–15 mm long; phyllaries numerous, imbricate, dark green or purplish, with scarious margins and finely ciliate tips. Florets all tubular, pink to purple; corolla 12–14 mm long, limb divided into slender lobes; anther tube dark purple; style branches exserted.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achene oblong, 4–5 mm long, striate, glabrous, topped by a persistent pappus of numerous, rough, white bristles about twice the length of the corolla tube.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers from May to July; fruits ripen from July to September.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Recorded by Mouterde from Mount Lebanon , especially Barouk , Dahr el-Baïdar , Jabal Sannine , and Ehden ; frequent on limestone slopes and among open Juniperus excelsa or Quercus calliprinos scrub.

Native to: Lebanon-Syria, Palestine (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

800 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Perennial herb, 15–40 cm tall, with a woody base and several ascending stems forming small, loose tufts. Stems slender, striate, simple or sparsely branched, covered with a thin arachnoid or cobwebby indumentum when young, later glabrescent.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Klasea pusilla

الفصيلة

نجمية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Astartoseris triquetra

قُرطُم نحيل

Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm.

القنطريون الكحلي

Centaurea cyanoides Berggr. & Wahlenb.

قنطريون أيبيري

Centaurea iberica Spreng.