Phagnalon kotschyi

الوصف النباتي

• Life-form & habit: Suffruticose perennial with a woody rhizome; stems slender, ascending, green to pale and sometimes appressed-canescent; usually 10–20 cm tall.

• Leaves: Thin, pale green, glabrous; 2–3 cm long; oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, entire and slightly acute; lower leaves attenuate into a petiole, upper ones sessile and distinctly adpressed-auriculate.

• Inflorescence & flowers: Terminal peduncles elongated, slender, often solitary or paired; involucre 8–10 mm, pale and shining, glabrous; bracts narrow, lanceolate, the inner long-attenuate and acuminate; florets pale whitish-yellow.

الثمار والبذور

• Fruits: Achenes subcylindrical, without a beak, crowned by a sparse, scabrid pappus in one series (generic character).

الانتشار الموثق

• Lebanese distribution: Mount Lebanon from Douma, Kneissé, Sannine, Afqa, Neba‘ el-Laban, Hasroun, Ehden, Dimane, Aïn el-Qarn, Qala‘at Arrouba, the Makmel range, and Jabal Qammoua.

• Native range: Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Türkiye (Kurdistan).

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Phagnalon kotschyi

الفصيلة

نجمية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Astartoseris triquetra

قُرطُم نحيل

Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm.

القنطريون الكحلي

Centaurea cyanoides Berggr. & Wahlenb.

قنطريون أيبيري

Centaurea iberica Spreng.