سنديان أشعر

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Alternate, petiolate; blades oblong to obovate, 60–120 × 25–60 mm, deeply pinnatifid with 6–12 lobes, each triangular and often bristle-tipped; upper surface dark green, glabrous; lower surface greyish-green, initially pubescent.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Monoecious. Male flowers in pendulous, yellow-green catkins; female flowers solitary or few in short spikes, axillary.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Acorn 20–30 mm, enclosed up to half its length in a densely bristly cupule with long, recurved scales. Matures in 18 months.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers in April–May; acorns ripen by the second autumn.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese localities: Recorded in montane oak woods of Mount Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon.

Native range: Southeastern and central Europe to the Levant, including Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czechia-Slovakia, East Aegean Islands, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon–Syria, NW Balkan Peninsula, Romania, Sicilia, Switzerland, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe (POWO).

Introduced range: Widely cultivated and naturalized in temperate regions including Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, New York, New Zealand South, and Poland (POWO).

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Large deciduous tree, up to 25–35 m tall, with a broad, irregular crown. Bark dark grey to blackish, deeply fissured with age. Young shoots often pubescent.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Quercus cerris

الفصيلة

بلّوطيّة

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Quercus calliprinos

سِنديان

Quercus coccifera

ملّول

Quercus infectoria

Quercus infectoria subsp. veneris