حامول مسطح الزهرة

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Highly reduced to minute, triangular scales, 0.3–0.5 mm long, membranous, translucent.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Clusters of 5–15 small, white to cream flowers in dense, globose or subcorymbose glomerules. Pedicels short (0.5–1 mm). Calyx cup-shaped, 4–5-lobed, lobes broadly ovate, slightly unequal, obtuse. Corolla urceolate to campanulate, 2–3 mm long, lobes short, triangular, reflexed at anthesis; tube often slightly constricted above the ovary. Scales truncate, fringed, placed about halfway up the corolla tube. Stamens 5, alternating with scales, filaments short, anthers round, yellowish. Styles 2, short; stigmas capitate, often closely approximated — a key identifying feature.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Capsule globose, 2–3 mm in diameter, circumscissile (opening transversely), slightly depressed at apex; seeds 4, ovoid, smooth, brown.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers and fruits from May to September.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Reported by Mouterde from Mount Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley — notably Zahlé, Dahr el-Baïdar, Barouk, and Ras Baalbeck; commonly parasitic on Artemisia , Medicago , and Heliotropium species in montane steppe habitats.

Native to: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Baleares, Belarus, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central European Russia, China Southeast, Corse, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Myanmar, North Caucasus, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, Yemen, Zambia (POWO).

Introduced into: Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Belgium, Botswana, British Columbia, Bulgaria, California, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Caroline Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Colorado, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, East Himalaya, Eswatini, Fiji, Free State, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Idaho, Jawa, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Line Is., Madagascar, Mauritius, Montana, Nebraska, Netherlands, Nevada, New Caledonia, New Mexico, New South Wales, New Zealand North, North Dakota, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Oregon, Poland, Queensland, Réunion, Seychelles, Society Is., South Australia, Tuamotu, Uganda, Uruguay, Utah, Victoria, Washington, Western Australia, Wyoming (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

800 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual parasitic vine with slender, twining, yellow to orange stems, 0.3–0.6 mm thick, forming dense entanglements over host plants. Haustoria numerous and deeply penetrating, attaching to herbaceous and shrubby hosts across open habitats.

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Cuscuta approximata

الفصيلة

نجمة الصباح

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Cuscuta epithymum var. alba

Cuscuta epithymum var. rubella

أثمان أرجواني

Ipomoea purpurea

مداد وردي

Convolvulus althaeoides