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- Life-form & habit : Briefly caulescent perennial, 5–15 cm tall, covered in greyish to yellowish tomentum. Leaves : Up to 20 cm long, with 18–25 pairs of linear-oblong, retuse, pale grey to grey-yellowish leaflets. Stipules fused into a single, long-triangular-lanceolate, bi-acuminate sheath. Inflorescence & flowers : Thick, scapiform peduncles, reaching 40–50 cm or more including the flower. Inflorescence ovate to ovate-oblong, dense, 2–5 cm long. Bracts narrowly lanceolate, very hispid, half the length of the calyx. Calyx : Densely hispid with subulate teeth slightly shorter than or nearly equaling the tube. Corolla : Purple, only slightly exceeding the calyx; standard longer than wings and keel. Fruit : Short, very shortly mucronate pods, nearly hidden by a very long hairy indumentum. Phenology : Flowers from June to August. Habitat & elevation : Mountain zones. Lebanese distribution : Mi-Mm. Ma‘asser ech-Chouf, above Jeba‘a; Mm. Cedars of Barouk, Jabal Barouk, Kfar Selouane to ‘Aïn Saoua‘ir, Jabal Kneissé, ‘Aqoura, Hasroun Valley, Tannourine, Cedars, Ehden; Ve. Mchaïtiyé to Aïnata; Herm. above Hasbaya; A.L. Fakiyé; S. A.L. Tala‘at Moussa. Regional range : Endemic to Lebanon and parts of western Syria
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