Leaves: Four to eight, glabrous, broadly lanceolate, somewhat pointed and spreading over the ground.
الأزهار
Inflorescence & flowers: Dense corymb emerging among the leaves and becoming hemispherical. Bracts papery, weakly pointed, with a green or brown dorsal band ending below the tip; longer than the flower stalks and covering the lower half of the perianth. Perianth about 2 cm long. Tepals blunt, with a broad green dorsal band that stops short of the tip. Stamens about one-third as long as the perianth.
الثمار والبذور
Fruit: Ovoid capsule.
الموائل والبيئة
Habitat & elevation: More or less waterlogged mountain soils near melting snow; rarely below 1,400 m.
مواسم النبات
الفنلوجية
Phenology: February–June or July, depending on altitude and snowmelt.
الانتشار الموثق
Leb. Syr. Tur. Pal.
Lebanese distribution: Jabal Barouk, Dahr el Baidar, Jabal Kneisse, Kfar Selouan, Ain Saouair, Jabal Sannine, Yammoune–Aqoura, Khan Mogheir above Zahle, Hasroun, Ainata and the summit of Mount Hermon.
Syrian distribution: Above Zebdani, Jabal Qasyoun and Jabal Abou Ata.
Recorded locations: Sannine.
Native range: Lebanon-Syria, Palestine and Türkiye.
الارتفاع الموثق
الارتفاع
1,400 m
لمحة نباتية
بنية النبات
Life-form & habit: Bulbous perennial with a simple ovoid bulb, 1–3 cm in diameter, enclosed by whitish or greyish tunics. Flowering stem very short, under 5 cm.
دورة الحياة
معمرة
الفصيلة والتصنيف
الاسم العلمي المقبول
Ornithogalum lanceolatum
الفصيلة
هليونية
أسماء علمية بديلة قيد التحقق
Synonym: Ornithogalum billardierei Mouterde, printed as O. billardieri in Mouterde’s account.