Alcea digitata

الوصف النباتي

Calicule & calyx : Calicule faintly striate, divided halfway into acute triangular lobes; tomentose, five‑lobed calyx exceeds the calicule by about one‑third.

Fruit (carpels & seeds) : Carpels pubescent, shallowly channelled dorsally; seeds ornamented with conspicuous white tubercles.

الأوراق

Leaves : Long‑petiolate and deeply palmately cut almost to the base into narrow, velvety lobes; both faces softly hairy and finely denticulate along the margins.

الأزهار

Inflorescence : A simple, rather loose terminal raceme of almost sessile flowers; the lowermost flowers are overtopped by short leafy bracts.، Corolla : Large, vivid purplish‑red petals, obcordate, roughly three times the calyx length; petal claws fringed with ciliate‑pectinate hairs.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Flowering period : Summer.

الانتشار الموثق

Native range : Eastern Mediterranean; recorded in Lebanon (Sofar, Jabal Kneissé above ʿAïn Saha) and the Anti‑Lebanon–Hermon region, extending southwards into Palestine and northwards into Turkey.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life‑form & habit : Tall, erect biennial to short‑lived perennial, 1 – 2 m high; stems densely coated in a closely appressed felt of stellate hairs, without the long deflexed bristles seen in some congeners.

دورة الحياة

ثنائية الحول، معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Alcea digitata

الفصيلة

الخبازية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

عُوَيْنة البَقَرَة

Alcea setosa Alef.

خبازة صغيرة الأزهار

Malva neglecta

طُبّاق

Malva parviflora

خبيزة

Malva aegyptia