Erica manipuliflora

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves : Leaves persistent, ternate, short, linear and obtuse, grooved beneath.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers : Flowers grouped by 3–5 in lateral fascicles, eventually forming long racemes; pedicels longer than the leaves; calyx of four free oblong sepals, coloured like the corolla and bearing a basal scale; corolla campanulate, four-lobed to about the middle, more than twice as long as the calyx, very variable in colour within the same population, from almost pure white to rose-purple; stamens 8, with exserted, non-appendiculate anthers.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit : Capsule loculicidal, opening by four valves; fruit characters are given by Mouterde for the genus, not separately detailed for this species.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology : Flowers almost throughout the year except June–July, with peak flowering from October to April.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution : Recorded by Mouterde from Beyrouth, Bouchriyé, sandstone below Beit Méri and Broummana, Jamhour, Baabda, Bikfaya to Dhour Choueir and Mrouj, north of Nahr-el-Kelb near ‘Antoura, ‘Aïn Rihaniyé, Qornayel and Khan Sannine. Mouterde notes that it is absent or perhaps very sporadic south of the Beyrouth-Damascus road, Baabda-Mdeireje.

Native range : Albania, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, NW. Balkan Pen., Sicilia, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe.

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

0–1000 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit : Much-branched subshrub or small shrub, 30–150 cm tall, with woody stems branching strongly from the base; stems and branches glabrous, whitish.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Erica manipuliflora

الفصيلة

الخلنجية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Rhododendron ponticum subsp. ponticum

قطلب

Arbutus andrachne