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الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, bipinnatisect into narrow lobules, each ending in a strong spine; surfaces grey-green, densely tomentose; basal leaves long-petiolate, cauline leaves sessile, decurrent.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Globose capitula 5–6 cm across, solitary or clustered; involucral bracts numerous, the basal forming a brush of denticulate bristles half the length of the rest, outer bracts spatulate-dentate, median lobed and serrate, inner shorter, obtuse, fimbriate, partly connate. Florets tubular, yellowish. Bracts of upper capitula sometimes prolonged into horn-like tips.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes compressed, crowned by barbellate, paleaceous bristles united in a basal ring.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers May–July.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Beqaa (Baalbeck), Hermon (Rachaya).

Syrian distribution: Damascus plain (Mezzé, Harasta, Marj el-Akhdar), Palmyra, Slenfé, Tell Hadid, Qaryatein, Jabal Abiad, Jabal Daoua, Ras el-‘Aïn.

Native range: Iraq, Lebanon–Syria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia (POWO).

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Tall perennial, often exceeding 1 m; stems stout, erect, very white-woolly, giving a canescent appearance.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Echinops polyceras

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.