Leaves : Basal, long-petiolate, orbicular to broadly cordate, usually 2–6 cm wide, entire or very faintly crenulate; upper surface dark green, often marbled with pale grey or silver; lower surface commonly reddish-purple.
الأزهار
Inflorescence & flowers : Flowers solitary on slender scapes, nodding before anthesis; corolla with reflexed lobes, pink to deep rose-purple, rarely white, usually with a darker blotch at the mouth; calyx small, 5-lobed.
الثمار والبذور
Fruit : Capsule globose, developing close to the ground as the pedicel coils after flowering; seeds numerous, brownish, often dispersed by ants.
الموائل والبيئة
Habitat & elevation : Shaded woodland, rocky slopes, humus-rich soils under shrubs and forest margins; mainly 700–1800 m.
Phenology : Flowers from February to April; fruiting in spring.
الانتشار الموثق
Lebanese distribution : Recorded in Mount Lebanon and northern Lebanon, especially in shaded montane habitats, including cedar and mixed woodland zones.
Native range : Bulgaria, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, South European Russia, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe.
Introduced into : Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Romania
الارتفاع الموثق
الارتفاع
700–1800 m
لمحة نباتية
بنية النبات
Life-form & habit : Perennial tuberous geophyte; tuber rounded to depressed-globose, producing leaves and flowers from the upper surface; plant low, usually forming small winter-flowering colonies.