Acer monspessulanum subsp. microphyllum

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Long-petioled, generally not exceeding 3 cm in length and width; usually trilobed, occasionally with rudimentary traces of two additional lobes; underside paler but not glaucous, somewhat coriaceous at maturity. Lobes variable in depth and outline — entire and triangular, or broader and lobulate-crenate, sometimes resembling vine leaves.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Cymes relatively short, axillary.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Samaras with strongly prominent, subcarinate, shining nutlets, more or less covered with long flexuous whitish hairs; wings brownish to reddish-purple, connivent or slightly spreading.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers in spring.

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr. Tur.

Lebanese distribution: Baskinta; Cedars of Tannourine; Berkacha; Yammouneh; Ouadi Fou’ara; Mchaitiyé; ‘Aïnata (North Lebanon); ‘Aïnata–Deir el-Ahmar; Litani Gorge near Yohmor; Orontes sources; Cheba‘a; Ouadi Cheba‘a; Rachaya to the base of Mt Hermon; western slopes of Mt Hermon.

Native range: Lebanon–Syria, Turkey (POWO).

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Small tree or shrub, 2–5 m tall; young branches often reddish.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Acer monspessulanum subsp. microphyllum

الفصيلة

صابونية

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