Onopordum floccosum

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Pinnatipartite into very spiny segments, more rarely pinnatilobate.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula 3–5 cm in diameter (excluding spines). Involucral bracts not exceeding 4–5 mm broad at base, extended into a narrow spine, slightly recurved, much longer than the bract body (≥ 2 cm), flat inside, very acute at apex. Lower bracts spreading or reflexed, upper bracts erect.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: As in genus (achenes obovoid-tetragonal, glabrous, with deciduous pappus).

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers March–August.

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr.

Lebanese distribution: Ct. Tyr, Naqoura, Saïda, source of Nahr Beyrouth, Tripoli; ‘Akkar (Qala‘at Arrouba, between Cheikh Mohammed and Baïno, Jabal Qamoua); Mi. Jabal Terbol, Broummana; Mm. Les Cèdres, Ehden, Dimane, Hasroun, Jabal Jrad, Qal‘at el-Fakhra; Me. Jabal Sannine; Ve. ‘Aïnata; Met. Zahlé, Jdita, Ksara; Sud. Qala‘at ech-Chekif; A.L. Rayak.

Native range: Lebanon, Syria.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Plant more or less arachnoid-canescens, sometimes faintly puberulent, often exceeding 1 m; stem erect, more or less branched above, very shortly winged, weakly to strongly spiny throughout.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Onopordum floccosum

الفصيلة

نجمية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Astartoseris triquetra

قُرطُم نحيل

Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm.

القنطريون الكحلي

Centaurea cyanoides Berggr. & Wahlenb.

قنطريون أيبيري

Centaurea iberica Spreng.