أربيان قصير الفروع

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Small, sessile or subsessile, ovate-oblong in outline, divided into short, linear-oblong lobules with very short apicula; lobes closely spaced.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Peduncles 6 – 9 cm; outer involucral bracts oblong-lanceolate, broadly margined, 5 mm long, with a wide scarious apex; receptacular scales navicular, subcarinate, oblong-spatulate, 2.5 mm, green-nerved, membranous, often emarginate and mucronulate. Disk florets tubular, glabrous or rarely sparsely hairy; ligules oblong-obovate, 4 – 7 mm long, slightly 3-lobed at apex.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes slender, obconic-cylindric, white, faintly recurved, striate, smooth or slightly tuberculate, c. 0.5 mm long, topped by an auricle two to three times shorter than the body.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers in spring.

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr.

Lebanese and Syrian distribution: Anti-Lebanon (Yabroud), steppe of Palmyra (T4 station, Qaryatein, Soukhné, Deir-ez-Zor).

Native range: Endemic to the Syrian Desert (Lebanon-Syria).

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Low, appressed-tomentose annual, multicaule from the collar, diffuse or ascending; stems 6 – 12 cm long.

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Anthemis breviradiata

الفصيلة

نجمية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Astartoseris triquetra

قُرطُم نحيل

Carthamus tenuis (Boiss. & Blanche) Bornm.

القنطريون الكحلي

Centaurea cyanoides Berggr. & Wahlenb.

قنطريون أيبيري

Centaurea iberica Spreng.