قنطريون أقسوني الأوراق

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Very coriaceous, broadly lanceolate-linear, strongly veined beneath, pinnatilobed into triangular lobes separated by undulate sinuses, each ending in short but strong spines. Basal leaves long, attenuate into a petiole; cauline leaves progressively shorter, decurrent into spinose-lobed wings.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula subsessile, 1.5 cm long and wide, yellowish. Involucral bracts tomentose; lower ones with a short semi-orbicular appendage bearing 5–7 small spines; middle bracts with a long spine surrounded by spinules at the base, equaling the florets; upper bracts scarious, cucullate, unarmed. Florets yellow.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes compressed, blackish; pappus blackish, intermediate series 2× the length of the achene body, innermost series 3× shorter.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers June–August.

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr.

Lebanese distribution: Deir-el-Ahmar, Beqaa plain (Yammouné–Baalbeck, Aytanit, Chmistar, Baalbeck Shaad, Qabbelias, Anjar), Ouadi-el-Harir.

Syrian distribution: Chahba, Jabal Druze, Soueida.

Native range: Endemic to Lebanon and Syria.

⚠️ Diagnostic note: Distinguished by its coriaceous, strongly lobed-spiny leaves and the characteristic involucral bracts: the lower with small spinules, the median with a long central spine, and the upper scarious and cucullate.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Robust perennial, 60–100 cm, entirely appressed-canescente, usually multicaule. Stems leafy, ending in a dense paniculate-thyrsoid inflorescence.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Centaurea onopordifolia

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.