Scape & inflorescence : Scape extremely short, hidden among the leaves; carries a compact spike of 2 – 5 (7) spikelets that arise almost from the same point. Rachis velvety‑pubescent.
الأوراق
Leaves : Very crowded, short and rigid, green, usually up to (or a little over) 1 cm long in Lebanon; glabrescent or hispid‑pubescent with spreading hairs.
الأزهار
Bracts : Pubescent or nearly glabrous; the lowermost shorter and more herbaceous, the others broadly scarious and equalling or slightly exceeding the calyx tube.، Calyx : Cylindrical tube, slightly hairy; hyaline white limb with five dark‑purple veins, usually projecting a little beyond the margin, glabrous or minutely hairy.، Corolla : Purple, becoming slightly involute after flowering.، Reproductive structures : Stamens a little shorter than the filiform styles; filament bases broadened and adnate to the short claws of the almost free petals. Stigmas small, with a glandular surface.
الموائل والبيئة
Habitat & elevation : Rocky high‑mountain slopes and ridges.
Native range : Lebanon (Jabal Barouk, Jabal Kneissé, Cedars region, Dimane–Yamouné, Jabal Sannine), Mount Hermon, Anti‑Lebanon (Bloudane, Signal de Zemrani); more broadly recorded from Greece, Crete, Cappadocia, Taurus, Beryt Dagh, Bithynia and the Tabriz region.
لمحة نباتية
بنية النبات
Life‑form & habit : Dense hemispherical cushion‑shrub, up to c. 30 cm across; sparsely dotted with calcareous points, therefore greener than most Lebanese congeners.