Heliotropium bovei

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Petiolate, ovate-obtuse, strongly veined, covered with appressed pubescence.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Cymes solitary or paired, uniseriate, elongating and lax at maturity. Calyx tomentose-white, lobes lanceolate, obtuse, equalling the corolla tube. Corolla hairy outside, glabrous within; limb equalling tube, lobes ovate, obtuse, sometimes denticulate in the sinuses. Anthers linear, inserted below mid-tube, apex deflexed inward. Style nearly obsolete; stigma long-conical, attenuate, hispid at the summit, slightly recurved inward.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Nutlets rugose, tuberculate, glabrous or minutely hispid.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers May–September.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Saida, Beirut, Tripoli, Bsarma, Chtaura (Blanche, Post, Mouterde, Sam).

Syrian distribution: Baalbeck, Damascus, Latakia, Tartous, Homs, Hama, Idlib, Afrine, Maaret-en-No‘mane, Palmyra, Zebdani, Bloudane, Qatana, Tell Bisri, Qala‘at el-Hosn.

Native range: Iraq, Lebanon–Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Turkey (POWO).

Introduced into: Germany (POWO).

⚠️ Diagnostic note: Separated from the sympatric H. lasiocarpum and H. schweinfurthii by its very appressed white pubescence, ovate-obtuse leaves with strong venation, uniseriate cymes, and nearly obsolete style with long conical stigma .

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual, 20–40 cm tall, canescent-velvety with very appressed white hairs; stems prostrate or ascending, much branched from the base.

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Heliotropium bovei

الفصيلة

حمحمية

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لسان الثور

Hormuzakia aggregata (Lehm.) Gusul.

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