Cuscuta epithymum var. rubella
الفصيلة نجمة الصباح · Convolvulaceae
معرض النبات
حقوق الصور وإسنادها
- المصدر · الصورة الأصلية
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الوصف النباتي
- الأوراق
- Leaves : Leaves reduced to minute, scale-like structures, without chlorophyll.
- الأزهار
- Inflorescence & flowers : Flowers small, pinkish to reddish or pale rose, grouped in compact glomerules along the parasitic stems; calyx short, 4–5-lobed; corolla campanulate to urceolate, with short lobes; stamens included.
- الثمار والبذور
- Fruit : Capsule small, globose, enclosed by the persistent corolla; seeds minute, hard, brownish, usually several per capsule.
الموائل والبيئة
Habitat & elevation : Parasitic on low herbs and shrubs in dry grasslands, scrub, field margins and open rocky habitats; from low elevations to montane zones.
الرطوبة
مواسم النبات
- الفنلوجية
- Phenology : Flowers from May to August; fruiting from June to September.
الانتشار الموثق
Lebanese distribution : Scattered in Lebanon; probably overlooked because of its parasitic habit and small flowers.
Native range : Corse, Lebanon-Syria, Tunisia.
لمحة نباتية
- بنية النبات
- Life-form & habit : Annual holoparasitic therophyte; stems filiform, twining, reddish to pinkish or pale orange, leafless, attaching to host plants by haustoria.
- دورة الحياة
- حولية
الفصيلة والتصنيف
- الاسم العلمي المقبول
- Cuscuta epithymum var. rubella
- الفصيلة
- نجمة الصباح
