أسل منحني

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Reduced to basal sheaths, pale brown to straw-coloured, tightly clasping the stem; true blades mostly absent or reduced to short, setaceous tips.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Pseudolateral panicle, appearing lateral but overtopped by a long, erect bract resembling a continuation of the stem. Inflorescence loose to contracted, 5–15 cm long, bearing numerous small brownish-green flowers. Tepals 6, subequal, lanceolate, 2.5–3 mm long, green with scarious margins. Stamens 3–6; anthers linear, as long as or longer than filaments. Capsule oblong, trigonous, slightly longer than the perianth, brown and shining.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Capsule containing numerous minute, yellowish-brown seeds, oblong and finely reticulate, mucilaginous when wet.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers and fruits from May to August.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Common in humid montane valleys and marshy slopes of Mount Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley — especially around Barouk , Dahr el-Baïdar , Ain Zhalta , and Nahr es-Safa ; often co-occurring with Juncus effusus but preferring firmer, less waterlogged soils .

Native to: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Assam, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, DR Congo, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, France, Free State, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Madagascar, Madeira, Mongolia, Morocco, Netherlands, North Caucasus, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Xinjiang, Yemen (POWO).

Introduced into: Amsterdam-St.Paul Is., Finland, Jawa, Michigan, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Québec, Sri Lanka, Uruguay, Victoria, Vietnam, Virginia (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

000 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Perennial rhizomatous rush, 40–120 cm tall, forming dense, stiff clumps. Stems erect, smooth, finely striate, bluish-green to glaucous, 1–3 mm thick, with a distinctly interrupted pith — a diagnostic feature separating it from J. effusus .

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Juncus inflexus

الفصيلة

أَسَلِيَّةُ

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

السمار

Juncus acutus

أسل مفترش

Juncus effusus

الأسل البحري

Juncus maritimus