دفنة زيتونية

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Alternate, crowded near branch tips, sessile, oblong to lanceolate, 10–25 × 3–8 mm, entire, coriaceous, with revolute margins. Upper surface dark green and glossy; underside paler, sometimes slightly tomentose.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Terminal or subterminal clusters of 3–8 sessile, tubular flowers. Calyx (perianth) tubular, 7–12 mm long, white to creamy-yellow or pinkish; lobes 4, spreading, ovate, obtuse. Flowers fragrant, bisexual. Stamens 8 in two whorls; style short; stigma capitate.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Drupe ovoid, 7–10 mm long, red to orange-red when ripe, containing a single seed.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers from March to May; fruits mature in late spring to early summer.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Common in the Mount Lebanon chain , particularly Barouk , Ehden , Bsharré , and Dahr el-Baïdar ; extends into the Beqaa Valley foothills . Often dominant in open montane shrublands and among Juniperus excelsa stands.

Native to: Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, Corse, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, NW. Balkan Pen., Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Türkiye (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

200 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Evergreen shrub, 20–70 cm tall, forming dense, low mats or hemispherical cushions. Branches woody, rigid, much-branched from the base, often gnarled and divaricate. Young shoots green, finely pubescent or glabrescent.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Daphne oleoides

الفصيلة

مثنانية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Daphne libanotica

متنان

Thymelaea hirsuta

Thymelaea gussonei