سيلينة ثنائية التفرع

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Greyish-hairy, oblong to lanceolate and pointed; floral leaves membranous.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Flowers on very short stalks. Calyx with prominent green veins bearing spreading bristles, shortly cylindrical at flowering and oval-oblong in fruit. Petal limbs white, rarely pink, divided almost to the base into two lobes. Petal crown consists of short, blunt strips in the racemosa form, reduced to tiny scales or swellings in Mouterde’s sibthorpiana form.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Ovoid capsule on a very short internal stalk. Seeds rough and tuberculate, slightly channelled along the back.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: April–May in the S. racemosa account.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Under S. racemosa: near Halba, Menges, above Aramoun in Kesrouan, Boqayta, Rayfoun, near Hasroun and Ebel es Saki. Under S. sibthorpiana: Nahr Abou Ali, Ain Besabba, Bikfaya, Ain Akrine near Amyoun, Jabal Terbol, Qadicha valley, Sannine, Kamed el Loz, Ammiq, Zahle and Qalaat ech Chekif.

Syrian distribution: Under S. racemosa: Kafer Halab, Homs, Babeska and Soueida. Under S. sibthorpiana: Aleppo, Homs, Eriha, Sarmada, Khan Assal, Latakia, Tartous, Upper Jezire, Qoubour el Bid, Akkari–Tell Kalakh, Qalaat el Hosn and Hamme.

Recorded locations: Sannine, Kfertay, Bqaatouta and Tannourine.

Native range: Altay, Baltic States, Belarus, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Romania, South European Russia, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine and West Siberia.

Introduced into: Alabama, Algeria, Belgium, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Japan, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North European Russia, Norway, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Poland, Québec, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tasmania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual or biennial. Ascending stems spread from the crown and divide repeatedly into wide forks, 20–60 cm tall, clothed with curly hairs.

دورة الحياة

حولية، ثنائية الحول

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Silene dichotoma

الفصيلة

قرنفلية

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Bolanthus filicaulis

Cherleria rupestris

Dianthus marinae

Dianthus micranthus var. alb