قتاد صمغي

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit : Branched subshrub from the base, 20–60 cm tall. Older stems bare, glabrescent, with brown bark and persistent spiny petiole bases; young stems enveloped by such pale, spiny petioles. Leaves : On flowering stems, petioles glabrous, straw-colored, ending in a strong spine, with only 4–6 pairs of folded, green, glabrous or glabrescent leaflets (3–4 mm), very shortly petiolulate and caducous. Inflorescence & flowers : Small, capituliform racemes of 2–3 flowers at the axils of leaves enveloped by stipules. Bracts broadly ovate to orbicular-navicular, hyaline, oblique at the tip, longer than the calyx tube. Calyx : Densely hairy, with a very thick indumentum; teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla : Pale yellowish-white; standard blade retuse, slightly shorter than the claw. Fruit : Not described. Phenology : Flowers from May to August. Habitat & elevation : Mountainous areas, rocky slopes. Lebanese distribution : Mi. Boqaïta, E. of Douma; Mm. Jabal Barouk, Jabal Kneissé, between Sannine and Kneissé, Dimane, Ehden, Jabal Qamou‘a, Cedars of Bsharré; Herm. Hermon. Regional range : Southern Turkey, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Astragalus gummifer

الفصيلة

بقولية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

قتاد خطافي

Astragalus hamosus

قتاد فوقي اللسان

Biserrula epiglottis (L.) Coulot

Lathyrus laxiflorus subsp. laxiflorus

Lotus dorycnium subsp. anatolicus