تنوب قيليقية

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Persistent 6–10 years, linear, rigid, flattened, 2–3 cm long, dark green above, whitish with 2 stomatal bands beneath; apex obtuse or emarginate. Leaves spreading comb-like on lateral shoots, radially on erect shoots.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Monoecious. Male strobili numerous, axillary on previous year’s shoots, cylindrical, yellowish. Female cones erect, cylindrical, 10–15 × 4–5 cm, green turning brown at maturity; bracts exserted, reflexed.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Mature cones disintegrating on tree at seed release; seeds winged, triangular, 1 cm long.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Pollen shed in April–May; seed cones mature September–October.

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr. Tur.

Lebanese distribution: Extensive on Jabal el-Mnaitra, Jabal Barouk, Jabal Sannine, Jabal Makmel above Bcharré, Ehden forest, and Jabal Qamou‘a.

Syrian distribution: Anti-Lebanon (Hermon), mountains of the Syrian coast (Slenfé, Jabal Ansarieh).

Native range: Endemic to the Levant; restricted to Lebanon, Syria, and the adjacent Taurus Mts. in southern Turkey.

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

1,400–2,000 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Large evergreen conifer, 20–35(–40) m tall; trunk straight, bark grey, fissured with age; crown pyramidal in youth, broadening with age. Branches horizontal, often slightly ascending at tips.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Abies cilicica

الفصيلة

صنوبرية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

قريش صنوبر

Pinus halepensis

صنوبر ثمري

Pinus pinea

أرز لبناني

Cedrus libani