الوصف النباتي
- الأوراق
- Leaves: Alternate, linear, 6 – 22 mm, straight or flexuose, rigid, acute and pungent; floral leaves short, scarious at the base, mucronate.
- الأزهار
- Inflorescence & flowers: Solitary in the axils of lower branch leaves, sessile, subtended by two bracteoles equaling or exceeding the floral leaf. Perianth 4 mm, 5-sepaled, membranous-margined, keeled. Stamens 5. In fruit, perianth expanded into unequal membranous wings, white or purplish.
- الثمار والبذور
- Fruit: Achene enclosed in the winged perianth.
الموائل والبيئة
وصف الموئل
Habitat & elevation: Dry steppe and montane slopes, from plains up to alpine belts.
مواسم النبات
- الفنلوجية
- Phenology: Flowers July – August; fruits autumn and winter.
الانتشار الموثق
Lebanese distribution: Beqaa (Baalbeck), Hermel, Col des Cèdres, Jabal Sannine, Les Cèdres, Qornet es-Saouda, Anti-Lebanon, south to Damascus plain and Palmyra.
Native range: Afghanistan, Algeria, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, North Caucasus, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Sinai, Transcaucasus, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Uzbekistan (POWO).
لمحة نباتية
- بنية النبات
- Life-form & habit: Rigid shrub, 30 – 40 cm, glabrous, much branched from the base. Trunk and older branches grey, fissured; young twigs flexuous, yellowish-green, papillose-scabrid.
الفصيلة والتصنيف
- الاسم العلمي المقبول
- Noaea mucronata
- الفصيلة
- قَطيفيّة