مرار

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves : Soft, papillose-pubescent; basal leaves in a rosette, dentate to pinnatisect with winged rachis and mucronate lobes. Cauline leaves sessile, with fewer lobes; uppermost leaves entire.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers : Lateral and terminal capitula solitary, subsessile or shortly pedunculate.، Flowers : Pink.، Involucre : Ovoid-conical, 12–15 mm long, 5–7 mm wide excluding spines.، Bracts : Glabrous, pale, leathery, with narrowly membranous margins; middle bracts with a long spreading spiniform appendix (10–20 mm) bearing 2–3 pairs of short lateral spines (2–3 mm). Inner bracts scarious, without spines.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit : Small achenes, 3–4 mm long, glabrous, lacking a pappus.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology : Flowers from May to July.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution : Ct. : Very localised in Furn-el-Chebak, near Tripoli, and ‘Aqbet-el-Loz Ve. : Zahlé

Syrian distribution : N of Tartous, Slenfé, Jabal Mattai

Native range : Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Baltic States, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Madeira, Morocco, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Sudan-South Sudan, Tunisia, Türkey, Türkey-in-Europe, Ukraine. (KEW)

Introduced into : Alabama, Arizona, Belgium, California, Cape Provinces, District of Columbia, Florida, France, Free State, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Illinois, India, Iowa, Ireland, Maryland, Massachusetts, Netherlands, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Norway, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Pennsylvania, Poland, South Australia, Switzerland, Tasmania, Uruguay, Utah, Victoria, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya. (KEW)

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit : Erect, divaricately branched annual, 40–60 cm tall.

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Centaurea calcitrapa

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.