Quercus calliprinos

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Thick, coriaceous, evergreen, ovate to elliptic, 2–6 × 1–3 cm, shiny dark green above, paler beneath; margin coarsely serrate to dentate, spinescent; apex acute to mucronate; petiole short.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Monoecious. Male catkins slender, pendulous, yellowish, clustered at branch tips. Female flowers solitary or few, sessile in the leaf axils.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Acorn ovoid, 1–3 cm long, partially enclosed by a scaly cupule with appressed scales. Maturation annual or biennial.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers April–May; acorns ripen September–October of same or following year.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Very widespread, forming dense maquis and open woodlands on Mount Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, and coastal hills; abundant around Beirut, Saïda, Tripoli, the Beqaa margin, Jabal Barouk, and northwards to Ehden and Bcharré.

Native range: Mediterranean Basin and Near East, from Portugal and Morocco eastwards through Greece, Türkiye, Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine.

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

c. 1,400 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Evergreen shrub or small tree, usually 2–6(–10) m tall, very variable in habit; crown dense, much-branched, forming impenetrable thickets. Bark dark grey, becoming fissured with age.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي كما ورد

Quercus calliprinos

الفصيلة

بلّوطيّة

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