Cousinia ramosissima

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Coriaceous, somewhat resin-dotted, with reticulate-salient venation; glabrous or slightly pubescent above, tomentose-canescence beneath. Radical leaves oblong-lanceolate, shortly attenuate at base. Cauline leaves narrowly oblong, shortly and narrowly decurrent, sinuately dentate, each lobe ending in a yellow spine.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula terminal, subsolitary, shortly pedunculate, subtended by upper cauline leaves which often equal them; heads subglobose with 7–12 flowers. Involucral bracts 35–40, short-triangular, convex-carinate, ending in a short spine, more or less glandular-papillose dorsally; inner bracts shorter, submuticous, fimbriate. Florets yellow.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes compressed, subcostate, truncate at apex, with indistinctly lobulate margin.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers June–September .

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr. Tur

Lebanese distribution: ‘Aïnata, Deir-el-Ahmar, Yammouné, between Yammouné and ‘Afqa, Chmistar, Chaate, north of Hermel (10 km), Zahlé–Baalbeck road.

Syrian distribution: Baalbeck, Damascus environs, Ma‘ara, Homs, Chahba, Chaef, Telljeffha, Qastal, Tell Chihane .

Native range: Lebanon, Syria, Turkey (POWO).

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Much-branched perennial, 20–60 cm tall; stems glabrous or with a deciduous tomentum.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Cousinia ramosissima

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.