قرطم نحيل

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves : Basal and lower cauline leaves lyrate-pinnatifid with 5–8 pairs of lateral lobes, weakly pubescent, spiny-dentate. Upper cauline leaves sessile, subamplexicaul, with double spinose denticulation, folded inward, prominently veined, typically with sparse hairs and scattered glands.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers : Involucre not exceeding 1.5 cm in height and usually under 1 cm in width; pale-colored, whitish-green.، Flowers : Pale rose-purple, 15–20 mm long; anthers light to dark brown.، Bracts : subsp. tenuis : Stems slightly cobwebby; outer involucral bracts spreading, linear-lanceolate, sparsely hairy and glandular; middle bracts often flushed red, equal to or exceeding the flowers. subsp. foliosus (Boiss.) Hanelt: Leaves long, linear-lanceolate; stems white, lacking reddish spots; heads small (9–10 mm wide); bracts of the involucre up to twice as long as the flowers, barely broadened at base.، Pappus : Pale straw to brownish, 2–4 mm long, blunt-tipped.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit : Outer achenes blackish; middle ones whitish or pale brownish-grey, glossy.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology : Flowers from July to October, occasionally until November.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution : subsp. tenuis : Ct. Saïda, Beirut, Ras Beyrouth, Tripoli, Antélias, Sin el-Fil; Mi. Bikfaya, Broummana, Bhamdoun, Qornayel, Souq el-Gharb; Mm. Dimane, Bcharré.

Syrian distribution : Banias, east of Tartous; NLatt. SW of Kessab; Dam. Damas, 'Adra.

Native range : Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Türkey. (KEW)

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit : Erect or diffuse annual.

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Carthamus tenuis

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.