نبق نقطي

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Persistent, coriaceous, 10–20 × 5–10 mm, ovate-orbicular to elliptic, often spatulate; margins entire or faintly crenulate, usually revolute-convolute; upper surface glabrous, light green; lower surface paler, often tomentose.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Axillary, solitary; pedicels tomentose, as long as the flowers. Sepals oblong, yellowish; petals small, lanceolate. Disk villous.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Drupe obovoid, sweet-tasting; seed pale, with groove closed by a cartilaginous margin.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers in spring; fruiting follows shortly after.

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr. Tur. Pal.

Lebanese distribution: Recorded from Saïda, Nahr Ghadir, Choueifat, Beirut, Antélias, Nahr el-Kelb, Tripoli, Nahr Abou ‘Ali, Mar Roukhos, Kesrouan, ‘Araya, Qrayé, Jamhour, ‘Antoura, ‘Aley, Douma, Afqa, ‘Aïn Zehalta, Qannoubine, Bois de ‘Ammiq, Rachaya, Deir Mimas.

Native range: Lebanon–Syria, Palestine, Turkey (POWO).

Infraspecific variation: – Var. angustifolia Post: leaves narrower, strongly revolute, nearly linear; reported from northern Syria (Ouadi Qandil, Baghtché Caz)

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

600 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Evergreen, spiny shrub 1–2 m tall; branches entangled, rigid, pubescent when young, ending in sharp spines.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Rhamnus punctata

الفصيلة

نبقية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

سويد فلسطيني

Rhamnus lycioides

العرقد

Ziziphus lotus

عناب

Ziziphus lotus

عنّاب

Ziziphus jujuba