بطنج

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Shortly petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 3 – 8 × 1 – 3 cm, rounded or cuneate at the base, acute at apex, margins irregularly dentate, sometimes crisped or undulate; greyish tomentose beneath.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Dense pseudo-verticils forming terminal spikes 4 – 10 cm long, becoming interrupted at the base. Bracts subulate, longer than the flowers. Calyx 2.5 mm, with subulate teeth. Corolla c. 4 mm, 4-lobed, glabrous inside; stamens exserted.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Nutlets smooth, small, ovoid.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers June – October.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Reported from the Beqaa (‘Aïtou, Ta‘naïl, Zahlé), coastal plains, Karadourane, Sannine, and scattered other localities.

Native range: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Central European Russia, Chad, China South-Central, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, East Aegean Islands, East European Russia, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Peninsula, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, South European Russia, Spain, Sudan-South Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Zimbabwe (POWO).

Introduced into: Guinea, Illinois, Madeira, Maryland, New York, Oman, Sakhalin, Vermont (POWO).

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Perennial herb, 60 – 100 cm tall, with creeping rhizome; stems erect, simple or branched towards the top, covered by a short, appressed pubescence.، نبات تبقى براعم تجديده عند سطح التربة

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Mentha longifolia

الفصيلة

شفوية

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