Ptilostemon chamaepeuce

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Alternate, sessile, lanceolate to oblong, 5–15 × 1–3 cm, deeply sinuate or pinnatifid, with spiny-dentate lobes and a strong white midrib beneath. Upper surface green and slightly scabrid, underside whitish-tomentose. Margins with stiff yellowish spines up to 3 mm long.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula solitary or in small terminal clusters, 2–3 cm in diameter, surrounded by a dense involucre of rigid, imbricate bracts. Outer bracts ovate-lanceolate with spiny tips; inner ones purplish and narrow. Florets all tubular, reddish-purple, exserted, forming a compact head. Receptacle densely bristly.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Achenes oblong, 4–5 mm long, striate, glabrous; pappus of long, scabrid, unequal white bristles, easily detached at maturity.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers from May to July; fruits mature from June to August.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Recorded by Mouterde from Mount Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon — notably Dahr el-Baïdar, Barouk, Zahlé, Ras Baalbeck, and along the slopes of Jabal Sannine and the Beqaa Valley.

Native range: Albania, Cyprus, East Aegean Islands, Greece, Kriti, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Türkiye (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

600 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Perennial subshrub 30–100 cm tall, forming dense, woody-based clumps with several erect to ascending stems. Stems striate, branched above, greyish-green, covered with fine tomentum and minute spinescent hairs.

دورة الحياة

معمرة

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Ptilostemon chamaepeuce

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.