قتاد بيتلحمي

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: With 4 (rarely 5) pairs of leaflets, 2–4 cm long, densely tomentose. Leaflets 3–5 mm, oblong, mucronulate, covered with silky white hairs. Stipules ovate, shortly triangular, winged at the apex, tomentose.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Fascicles of c. 5 flowers forming small capitula at branch tips. Bracts broadly ovate-concave, shortly mucronate, tomentose, longer than the calyx tube. Calyx white, very hispid, with teeth three times as long as the tube. Corolla pale pink.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers June–August.

الانتشار الموثق

Leb. Syr. Tur. Pal.

Lebanese distribution: Deir el-Qamar, Cedars of Bsharré, Ouadi Fissene, Ouadi Ibrissa, Baalbeck, Ras Baalbeck, Rachaya.

Syrian distribution: Bloudane, Zebdani–Rachaya, Ouadi Barada, Damascus, Dimas, Mayssaloun, Homs plain, Chahba, Qastal, Tell Chihane, Tell Jinah, Kafer.

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

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Dwarf suffruticose shrub, 10–30 cm tall, much-branched.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Astragalus bethlehemiticus

الفصيلة

بقولية

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قتاد خطافي

Astragalus hamosus

قتاد فوقي اللسان

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