Echinops spinosissimus subsp. macrolepis

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Alternate, deeply pinnatisect with 5–8 pairs of rigid lobes ending in stout yellowish spines up to 10 mm long. Basal leaves large, 15–30 × 4–10 cm, oblong-lanceolate, petiolate; upper leaves sessile, amplexicaul, and decurrent along the stem. Upper surface green and scabrid; underside densely white-tomentose.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula globose, 2.5–4 cm in diameter, solitary at the ends of branches, surrounded by long, radiating, rigid spiny bracts. Florets numerous, tubular, bluish to pale lilac, 10–15 mm long, with exerted anthers and styles. Receptacle densely woolly.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes oblong, 4–5 mm long, ribbed, covered with fine hairs; pappus short, of minute scabrid bristles.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers and fruits from June to August.

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr. Pal.

Lebanese distribution: Recorded by Mouterde (as Echinops macrolepis ) from Mount Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon — notably Zahlé, Dahr el-Baïdar, Barouk, Ras Baalbeck, and the Beqaa Valley; frequent in steppe and submontane zones.

Native range: Lebanon-Syria, Palestine (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

800 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Perennial herb with a thick rootstock and rigid, erect stems 40–100 cm tall, branched above and covered with a dense greyish tomentum. Plant overall spiny, forming coarse clumps.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Echinops spinosissimus subsp. macrolepis

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.