Convolvulus dorycnium subsp. oxysepalus

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Sessile; lower ones villous, obtuse, oblong-spatulate with marked venation beneath; cauline and floral leaves very reduced, narrowly linear, acute.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Flowers solitary or in cymes of 2–3, borne on rigid peduncles. Bracteoles minute; pedicels very short. Sepals silky, appressed, obovate-rounded, obtuse or retuse, shortly mucronate. Corolla bright pink, pubescent along the folds, c. 2 cm across, much longer than the calyx.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Capsule small, with smooth seeds.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers April–July.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Tombeau d’Hiram near Tyre, Tripoli–Qalmoun, Bsarma, Qala‘at ech-Chekif, ‘Ammiq forest, Ferzol, Zahlé, Ksara, Zahlé–Baalbeck, Ouadi-el-Harir, Ghara de Baalbeck.

Syrian distribution: Baalbeck, sources of the Orontes, Hermon (Jib-Jenin), south of Aleppo, Saraqeb, Tartous, Kessab, Chahba.

Native range: Cyprus, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Iran.

⚠️ Diagnostic note: This subspecies differs from typical C. dorycnium by its narrower sepals, tapered into a longer mucro , and is considered the only form occurring in the Middle East.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Perennial, forming hemispherical tufts 30–80 cm tall, with numerous rigid, indurated, glabrous stems and branchlets.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Convolvulus dorycnium subsp. oxysepalus

الفصيلة

نجمة الصباح

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أثمان أرجواني

Ipomoea purpurea

مداد وردي

Convolvulus althaeoides