Crocus damascenus

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: 3–6, appearing with or shortly after the flowers, linear, 2–3 mm wide, with a distinct white median stripe, glabrous, and slightly channelled above; margins scabrid in some forms.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: One to several flowers per corm, appearing in autumn or early winter (October–December) before the leaves are fully developed. Perianth funnel-shaped, white to pale lilac with a yellow throat; outer tepals occasionally faintly veined. Throat glabrous or with sparse hairs. Perianth segments oblanceolate, 20–40 mm long. Filaments white, glabrous or slightly papillose; anthers yellow; style orange to reddish, dividing into three long, slender branches often exceeding the anthers.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Capsule oblong, 1–1.5 cm long, enclosed within the leaf bases during development; seeds small, reddish-brown, with a conspicuous white aril.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers in autumn (October–December); leaves persist through winter, and fruits mature in spring (March–April).

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr. Tur.

Lebanese distribution: Recorded by Mouterde from central and northern Mount Lebanon — particularly between Zahlé, Dahr el-Baïdar, Barouk, and Bcharré; also found in the Anti-Lebanon and Beqaa Valley.

Native range: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Türkiye (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

600 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Cormous perennial geophyte, 8–15 cm tall. Corm subglobose to ovoid, 1.5–2.5 cm in diameter, enveloped in several tunics that are fibrous to membranous; outer tunics brownish, sometimes slightly reticulate or faintly parallel-fibrous.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Crocus damascenus

الفصيلة

السوسنية

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