حامول بالنسي

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Greatly reduced to minute, scale-like structures, triangular or ovate, 0.2–0.5 mm long, sessile and translucent.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Clusters of 3–12 flowers in compact or subcapitate cymes, sessile or shortly pedicellate. Calyx cup-shaped, 4–5-lobed, lobes rounded, slightly unequal. Corolla urceolate to campanulate, 2–3 mm long, white to cream, lobes short, broad, obtuse. Scales truncate, fringed, reaching about halfway up the tube. Stamens 5, alternating with scales; anthers oval, exserted slightly beyond corolla lobes. Styles 2, free, slender, about as long as the corolla; stigmas capitate.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Capsule globose, 2–3 mm, slightly depressed at the top, circumscissile or irregularly dehiscent; seeds 4, oblong, smooth or faintly reticulate, brown.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers and fruits from April to August, varying with host availability and elevation.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Recorded by Mouterde from Mount Lebanon and the Beqaa — notably Dahr el-Baïdar, Zahlé, and Ras Baalbeck; parasitic mainly on Morina persica , Thymelaea hirsuta , and members of Rubiaceae .

Native range: Afghanistan, Angola, Greece, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Socotra, Transcaucasus, Türkiye (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

600 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual holoparasitic herb with slender, twining, yellow to orange filiform stems, 0.2–0.6 mm thick, forming loose or dense tangles over host plants. Haustoria numerous, penetrating host stems and leaves to absorb nutrients.

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Cuscuta balansae

الفصيلة

نجمة الصباح

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Cuscuta epithymum var. alba

Cuscuta epithymum var. rubella

أثمان أرجواني

Ipomoea purpurea

مداد وردي

Convolvulus althaeoides