Alcea damascena

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Distant, long-petioled, densely covered with stellate hairs, especially beneath; lamina not exceeding 5 cm, variably lobed, often deeply, margins denticulate, veins prominent below.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Loose raceme; flowers solitary or paired, shortly pedunculate, lower ones axillated by floral leaves. Calicule with 4–6 lobes, not exceeding one third of the calyx; calyx distinctly striate, slightly pubescent. Petals white, 2–4 cm, obcordate, slightly bearded at the base.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Carpels densely tomentose-stellate, with obtuse margin, elegantly reticulate on the sides, faintly furrowed dorsally. Seeds smooth.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers May–September.

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr.

Lebanese distribution: Ouadi Fou’ara (Mount Lebanon), Hermel, Qaa, Baalbeck, Ras Baalbeck, Chara de Baalbeck.

Syrian distribution: Between Homs and Hama; Ma‘aret-en-No‘mane; Teftenaz; Chaizar; north of Massiaf; Mount Qasyoun; ‘Adra; Anti-Lebanon (Ouadi el-Qarn, Ouadi Houreiré).

Native range: Endemic to Lebanon and Syria

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Erect perennial, usually with a simple stem, reaching or exceeding 1 m, cylindrical, covered with appressed greyish tomentum.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Alcea damascena

الفصيلة

الخبازية

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عُوَيْنة البَقَرَة

Alcea setosa Alef.

خبازة صغيرة الأزهار

Malva neglecta

طُبّاق

Malva parviflora

خبيزة

Malva aegyptia