Flora-Fauna

Centaurium tenuiflorum (Hoffmanns. & Link) Fritsch
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, Pl. XV nº 8; 1983)

• Life-form & habit: Glabrous annual, 20–40 cm tall; branched only in the upper half, with erect stems.

• Leaves: Lower leaves ovate, obtuse, 8–15 mm wide.

• Inflorescence & flowers: Dichasial cyme. Flowers pedicellate; calyx equal or slightly shorter than the corolla tube.

• Corolla: Rose-colored, lobes lanceolate, obtuse.

• Phenology: Flowers from May to October.

• Habitat & elevation: Fields, particularly near the coast.

• Lebanese distribution: Nahr-el-Kelb, Antélias (?), Saïda (?), Tripoli (?). Kornet Chehwan (FloraFauna.life)

• Syrian distribution: Marais d’Outaya (?), Lake Khatouniyé.

• Native range: Albania, Algeria, Azores, Baleares, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Chad, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Great Britain, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Socotra, Spain, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Türkey, Türkey-in-Europe, West Himalaya. (KEW)  

• Introduced into: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Oklahoma, Oregon, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Texas, Victoria, Western Australia. (KEW)