Acanthus syriacus

الوصف النباتي

Inflorescence & bracts : Spike ovoid‑cylindrical, compact, often flushed purple when fresh. Bracts conspicuously large (4 – 6 cm or more), equalling or exceeding the flower, leathery, with raised reticulate nerves; margins ciliate; each side armed with 4 – 5 stout spines.

الأوراق

Leaves : Basal leaves long, oblong‑lanceolate, briefly tapering into a petiole; pinnatipartite into lanceolate segments that are themselves lobed and spiny, the lobes merging at the base. Usually two shorter, sessile cauline leaves.

الأزهار

Calyx : Glabrous; upper lobe large, herbaceous, oblong‑spatulate, faintly toothed at the tip; lower lobe narrower, linear, widened and bifid at the apex, the tips spinulose.، Corolla : White, completely glabrous; single lip trilobed, erect, the lobes rounded.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Flowering period : March – May.

الانتشار الموثق

Distribution : Eastern Mediterranean—Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, and Palestine.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life‑form & habit : Perennial, softly pubescent herb forming a loose clump 40 – 80 cm high; stem and flowering spike rise only slightly above the foliage.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي كما ورد

Acanthus syriacus

الفصيلة

أقنثية

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كف الدب

Acanthus hirsutus subsp. syriacus