شردنية شرقية

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Narrowly elliptic to linear, entire, sessile.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Stems ending in solitary capitula; capitula small, with 8–10 flowers, oblong, markedly enlarging in fruit (to c. 2 cm including achenes). Marginal florets cylindrical, 3–5-toothed; central florets hermaphroditic, 5-lobed.، Involucre: Glabrous; bracts appressed, imbricate, pale, ovate, obtuse, mucronulate; outer bracts ovate, inner ones gradually longer.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes of marginal florets subcompressed, glabrous, winged with denticulate margins, each wing ending in a horn, surmounted by 1–3 rigid paleae; achenes of hermaphroditic florets linear-cylindric, many-grooved, villous at base, crowned by 10 broad, acuminate, denticulate paleae.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers in April–May.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Middle and high mountain: Dahr-el-Baïdar, Jabal Kneissé, Ehden, forest of Ehden, Bcharré, Nahr-el-Kelb, col between Jezzine and Machghara, east of Joub Jannine, Hermon (route of Yanta), Ouadi-el-Harir.

Syrian distribution: Anti-Lebanon (Ma‘loula, Ouadi-el-Qarn, Bloudane), Hermon (‘Arné, Qalaat Jendel), Damascus and surroundings (Qasyoun, Kessoué, Salibriyé, Qtaifé), Aleppo (‘Azaz, Alep), Jabal Druze (Soueida, Tell Qpuleib, Tell Ahmar, Chahba), Hauran (Khabab), steppe east of Deir ‘Atiyé, Jabal Ghbeil, Jabal Bilas.

Native range: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, Pakistan, Palestine, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkmenistan, Türkey, Uzbekistan

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual, dwarf and often branched, 10–30 cm tall, appressed-canescente, resembling Xeranthemum .

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Chardinia orientalis

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.