مشعلية قلبية

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves : Sessile, rigid, sub‑opposite to alternate; blades triangular, 10 – 12 × 8 – 10 mm, cordate‑embracing at the base, margins slightly undulate.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers : Elongated racemes of whitish (very faintly sulphur‑tinged) flowers; petals exceed 10 mm and are longer than the sepals; major filaments not toothed. The species never shows a truly yellow corolla in Lebanon and Syria.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit (silicule) : Long‑pedicelled, orbicular‑oval, slightly concave, deep green; margins deeply crenate, sinus scarcely marked; style very long, equalling the silicule body.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Flowering period : May – July.

الانتشار الموثق

Native range : Turkey, Armenia, Syria and Lebanon, with a single historical record from Greece.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life‑form & habit : Perennial, woody at the base, forming loose clumps 20 – 30 cm high; stems become markedly ligneous with age.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Aethionema cordatum

الفصيلة

كرنبية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Aubrieta libanotica

Barbarea brachycarpa subsp. minor

Erucaria rostrata

قُرَة العَيْن

Nasturtium officinale R.Br.