Turritis laxa

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Basal leaves entire or lyre-shaped in a rosette; stem leaves arrow-shaped at the base and clasping the stem.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Loose raceme with flower stalks generally longer than both calyx and corolla. Sepals yellowish or whitish; petals creamy white, 5–6 mm long.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Flattened, more or less curved siliques 10–14 cm long. Fruiting stalks spread in the typical form and bend downwards, with reflexed fruits, in var. cremocarpa.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: March–May.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Mouterde assigns the Lebanese records to var. cremocarpa: Bikfaya, Feitroun, Hammana, Jezzine, Bchela, south of Michmich, Aramoun, Machnaqa, Aytanit, Ammiq, Hasbaya and Anti-Lebanon. Also recorded at Kfertay.

Syrian distribution: Ain Haramiye, Froulok, Kessab, Cassius, Qadmous and Slenfe.

Native range: Cyprus, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Transcaucasus, Türkiye.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Biennial herb with a tall, more or less branched stem 20–80 cm high, glaucous foliage and slight hairiness at the stem base, sometimes extending upwards.

دورة الحياة

ثنائية الحول

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Turritis laxa

الفصيلة

كرنبية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Aubrieta libanotica

Barbarea brachycarpa subsp. minor

Erucaria rostrata

قُرَة العَيْن

Nasturtium officinale R.Br.