Family |
Asteraceae
Anthemis rascheyana
Boiss.
Anthemis rascheyana Boiss.
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, Pl. CCXXIV nº 1 & Pl. CCXXV nº 1; 1983)
Description
Life-form & habit: Low, appressed-hairy, canescent annual, 5–15 cm tall, branched from the base or slightly above.
Leaves: Small, oblong in outline, petiolate, pinnatisect into very small, dense, oblong lobes.
Inflorescence & flowers: Capitula small, 8–12 mm across excluding the ligules. Involucre glabrous with very broadly ovate, obtuse, pale, scarious, somewhat lacerate-margined bracts. Receptacle hemispherical, bearing oblong-lanceolate paleae, keeled, obtuse and minutely denticulate at the tip. Ray florets white, ovate-oblong, shorter than the disc.
Fruit: Achenes slender, cylindrical, somewhat narrowed at the base, smooth, striate, truncate, without an apical margin or sometimes with a slight rim or short tooth.
Flowering and habitat
Phenology: Flowers in spring.
Habitat & elevation: Rocky ground.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Between Rachaya and Damascus (Boissier); Baalbeck.
Syrian distribution: Damascus, Kissoué, Aleppo, Qaryatein, Ma‘loula, Jerijir.
Native range: Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia (GBIF, KEW)