Carthamus persicus

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Lower cauline leaves sessile, with 3–5 pairs of lateral sinuosities producing short acute lobes, bearing a few glands beneath. Upper leaves sessile, subamplexicaul, horizontal, flat or slightly canaliculate, 4–12 mm wide, often yellowish-green, spinose, doubly denticulate; spines 4–6 mm, whitish or yellowish. Surfaces glabrous above, sometimes with scattered hairs or glands beneath.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula more or less loose, c. 15 mm long. Outer involucral bracts rarely longer than the flowers, sometimes up to 1.5–2× as long; acuminate, 2–4 cm × 3–5 mm, spreading or erect, spinose-dentate, slightly to moderately pubescent. Intermediate bracts linear-lanceolate with parallel nerves. Florets bright yellow, sometimes tinged reddish; limb 6–7 mm.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes pyramidal, smooth, shiny, 4.5–5 mm long and wide. Pappus of central achenes yellowish or violet, with scales 2 mm and bristles 7–9 mm.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers May–July.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Beqaa (east of Zahlé, Hammara, Mejdel-‘Anjar, Baalbeck plain), Zahlé to Baalbeck, Qaraoun, Chtaura.

Syrian distribution: Zebdani, Yabroud, north of Menbij, Damascus plain (Doummar, Dimas, Hijjané, ‘Adra, Sahl-es-Sahra), Soueida, Reddé.

Native range: Iran, Iraq, Lebanon–Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Turkey (POWO).

⚠️ Diagnostic note: Distinguished from C. oxyacanthus by its roughened central achenes with a pappus (versus smooth, pappus-less in C. oxyacanthus ), and from C. tinctorius by its pubescent filaments and narrower involucral bracts .

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual, glabrous except for a few glandular granulations at the top of stems and branches; 50–100 cm tall.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Carthamus persicus

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.