Myopordon pulchellum

الفصيلة نجمية · Asteraceae

معرض النبات

حقوق الصور وإسنادها

الأوراق: Leaves: All basal, shortly petiolate with sheathing bases, ovate-lanceolate, pinnatifid or lyrate, both surfaces canescent, margins ciliate-dentate; lobes ovate, tipped with a short spine.
الأزهار: Inflorescence & flowers: Capitulum solitary, sessile, as large or larger than the rosette. Involucral bracts arachnoid-canescent, ending in a strong semilunar dark appendage, acuminate into a spine (≥10 mm). Receptacle with smooth hairs twisted at the base. Florets purplish.
الثمار والبذور: Fruit: Achenes 5 × 1 mm, nearly smooth, with lateral hilum; pappus of unequal white bristles.

Habitat & elevation: Alpine rocky slopes and ridges, 2 500 – 3 000 m.

Endemic to Lebanon

Lebanese distribution: Qornet es-Saouda and surrounding ridges, Dahr el-Kodib, Col des Cèdres, Makmel summits, Rijal el-‘Achara, Jourd Qarassia.

Native range: Endemic to Lebanon.

بنية النبات: Life-form & habit: Subacaulescent monocarpic perennial, 3 – 5 cm tall, arising from a thick rhizome, forming a dense rosette.
دورة الحياة: معمرة

Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm.

Centaurea cyanoides Berggr. & Wahlenb.

Centaurea iberica Spreng.