Hedysarum coelesyriacum

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: 4–8 pairs of leaflets, spaced, pubescent on both sides, strongly canescent beneath, margins somewhat folded; leaflets ovate to elliptic. Stipules reddish, silky-pubescent, later glabrescent.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Peduncles much longer than the leaves, reaching up to 60 cm in tall plants, 20–30 cm in smaller ones. Inflorescences spiciform, often very elongated, lax, with numerous flowers that fall early when drying. Bracts minute, triangular, pubescent. Pedicels c. 2 mm, curved, canescent. Calyx 2–3 mm, triangular-teethed, shorter than the tube, canescent. Corolla pink, 8–10 mm; standard ovate, shorter than keel and wings; wings lanceolate, shorter than keel, with ascending tooth; keel sharply curved at nearly a right or acute angle, also toothed.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Loment usually of 1, rarely 2 articles, c. 1 cm, tomentose-canescente, slightly biconcave, with a faint groove parallel to margin; surface bearing long, fine, tubercle-based hairs, purplish or yellowish-green.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers June–July.

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr.

Lebanese distribution: Ouadi Fou‘ara, Ouadi Ibrissa (original collections); also Ouadi Taniyat-er-Ras.

Native range: Endemic to the Anti-Lebanon and Beqaa margins (Lebanon–Syria).

⚠️ Diagnostic note: Distinguished by its appressed-canescente foliage, long peduncles, sharply bent keel, and loments with usually a single article clothed in long purplish or yellowish hairs .

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Perennial with woody stock; stems erect or prostrate, branched at base, appressed-canescente, 30–80 cm tall.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Hedysarum coelesyriacum

الفصيلة

بقولية

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قتاد خطافي

Astragalus hamosus

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