Echinops spinosissimus subsp. bithynicus

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Firm, rigid, pinnatisect to bipinnatisect , with narrow triangular lobes ending in strong yellowish spines. Upper surface greenish to grey-green, sparsely arachnoid; lower surface paler, sometimes subglabrous; margins finely spinulose. Basal leaves 10–20 cm long, petiolate; upper leaves sessile and weakly decurrent.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula numerous (3–10 or more per plant) , globose, 3–5 cm in diameter, borne on long, usually equal-length branches. Involucral bracts shorter, denser, and less radiating than in subsp. macrolepis , forming a compact spherical outline; outer bracts narrowly lanceolate to subulate, pale straw to whitish, not exceeding the corollas. Florets bluish to lilac; anthers yellowish; style branches long and exserted.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes cylindric to oblong, glabrescent; pappus short, of small rigid scales or minute bristles.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers June–August ; fruits July–September .

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Recorded from the Ammiq–West Beqaa region, where several well-branched plants with multiple heads were photographed and collected. This represents the first confirmed record of the taxon in Lebanon , expanding its known range southward from its previously documented distribution in the eastern Mediterranean.

Native range (POWO): Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Kriti, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Perennial thistle-like herb with a woody base; stems 30–90(–120) cm tall, erect and usually well branched , forming several long ascending axes each terminating in a globose capitulum. Stems greenish to purplish, arachnoid-pubescent or shortly tomentose , sometimes nearly glabrescent, not glandular.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Echinops spinosissimus subsp. bithynicus

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.