بنج أبيض

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Lower leaves petiolate, ovate to oblong, irregularly sinuate-dentate; upper leaves sessile, amplexicaul, ovate-lanceolate, margins dentate, both surfaces pubescent.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Flowers in terminal and axillary cymes, shortly pedicellate, subtended by foliaceous bracts. Calyx campanulate, accrescent in fruit, with long, rigid, spreading teeth. Corolla white to cream, often with yellowish tint, throat veined with violet, 15–25 mm, funnel-shaped, lobes short and rounded. Stamens included; style exserted.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Capsule ovoid, enclosed within the persistent calyx, opening by a lid; seeds numerous, reniform, finely reticulate.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers April–July.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Coastal plains (Beirut, Tripoli, Saida), Beqaa (Zahlé, Baalbeck), foothills of Mount Lebanon.

Syrian distribution: Damascus plain, Hauran, Aleppo, Latakia, Palmyra.

Native range: Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Egypt, France, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon–Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, NW. Balkan Peninsula, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Yemen (POWO).

Introduced into: Czechia-Slovakia, Florida, Germany, India, New Jersey, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria (POWO).

⚠️ Diagnostic note: Distinguished from Hyoscyamus niger by its smaller stature, white to cream flowers with violet veins, and shorter, less inflated calyx teeth .

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

c. 1,200 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual to biennial herb, 20–60 cm tall, viscid-pubescent with glandular hairs, emitting a strong unpleasant odor. Stems erect, simple or branched from the base.

دورة الحياة

حولية، ثنائية الحول

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Hyoscyamus albus

الفصيلة

الباذنجانية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

عرقد

Lycium europaeum

سموة

Solanum villosum

سموة

Withania somnifera

عوسج

Lycium shawii