Family |
Asphodelaceae
Asphodeline damascena
(Boiss.) Baker
Leb. Syr. Tur.
Asphodeline damascena (Boiss.) Baker
(J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 15: 276, 1876; Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 1, p. 217; Pl. LXVII nº 1; 1966)
• Life-form & habit: Perennial with thick rhizome producing cylindrical roots. Stems stout, 60–120 cm, erect.
• Leaves: All radical or subradical, in dense rosette; linear-triquetrous, margins slightly scabrid.
• Inflorescence & flowers: Inflorescence simple or with erect branches up to 30 cm. Bracts lanceolate-acuminate, scarious, longer than the floral pedicels. Pedicels articulated above the middle, shorter than the flowers, becoming accrescent in fruit. Perianth white; tepals linear-oblong with a dark midrib. Filaments very unequal.
• Fruit: Capsule obovoid-turbinate, transversely wrinkled; at full maturity prismatic-cylindrical, enlarged from a quadrangular base.
• Phenology: Flowers April–June.
• Habitat & elevation: Stony ground.
• Lebanese distribution: Baalbeck, Ras Baalbeck, Nebi Chiite, Qa‘a.
• Syrian distribution: Ouadi-el-Qarn, Ouadi Barada, Bloudane, Madaya, Ma‘aret el-Bach, Zebdani, Jdeidé, Mayssaloun, Doummar, Sahl-es-Sahra.
• Native range: Lebanon–Syria, Turkey (POWO).