Alkanna prasinophylla

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Thin, membranous, light green, covered with rigid bristles (1–2 mm) and shorter hairs, some glandular. Lower leaves withered at anthesis; middle cauline leaves amplexicaul-cordate at base, up to 8 × 3 cm, widest near or below mid-blade; margin slightly denticulate; venation delicate, scarcely visible. Upper leaves grading into ovate-lanceolate bracts much exceeding the calyces.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Inflorescence lax. Corolla fairly large, blue or reddish. Fruiting calyx about 12 mm, lobes long-acuminate.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Nutlets blackish, c. 2.5 mm diameter, recurved, with dense vermiculate granulation, obtuse beak.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers May–June.

الانتشار الموثق

Endemic to Lebanon

Lebanese distribution: Endemic; confined to the central Mount Lebanon range between Afqa, Qartaba, Hadeth-el-Joubé (type locality), Ehden, and Berqacha.

Syrian distribution: Not recorded by Mouterde.

Native range: Endemic to Mount Lebanon.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Erect, fistulose stems, pale brown, branched below the middle into opposite, flexuous, floriferous branches, up to 20 cm tall. Indumentum of spreading rigid bristles and shorter glandular hairs.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Alkanna prasinophylla

الفصيلة

حمحمية

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غباشة صَغيرة الزَّهر

Buglossoides tenuiflora (L.fil.) I.M.Johnst.

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Hormuzakia aggregata (Lehm.) Gusul.

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