قنفذي غاياردو

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Alternate, pinnatisect with 5–8 pairs of lobes; lobes triangular-lanceolate, acuminate, and spiny-tipped. Upper surface greenish-grey and sparsely hairy, underside densely white-tomentose. Basal leaves large, 20–30 × 5–10 cm, petiolate; cauline leaves sessile, semi-amplexicaul, decurrent along the stem.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Globose capitula solitary at the ends of stems and branches, 3–4 cm in diameter, composed of numerous sessile tubular florets. Involucral bracts lanceolate, rigid, spinose at the apex, forming a dense globular head. Corolla pale bluish to whitish; anthers bluish; style exserted.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes oblong, 3–4 mm, finely ribbed, covered with short hairs; pappus of numerous unequal scabrid bristles.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers and fruits from June to August.

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr. Pal. Jor.

Lebanese distribution: Common in submontane and montane zones — recorded by Mouterde from Zahlé, Dahr el-Baïdar, Baalbeck, Barouk, Bcharré, and along the western Beqaa. Also occurs on the slopes of Jabal Sannine and Jabal Barouk.

Native range: Lebanon, Syria, Turkey and Palestine.

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

600 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Perennial herb with a thick rootstock and rigid, erect stems 50–120 cm tall, branched above. Whole plant greyish-green, densely covered with fine tomentum.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Echinops gaillardotii

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.