Family |
Onagraceae
Epilobium lanceolatum
Sebast. & Mauri
Epilobium lanceolatum Sebast. & Mauri
(First published in Fl. Roman. Prodr.: 138, t. 1, f. 2 (1818); Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 2; 1970) (Plants of the World Online)
• Life-form & habit : Perennial herb, 20–60 cm tall, erect, usually simple or little branched; plant almost entirely glabrous in Mouterde’s key, or with a short, crisped pubescence in the species description.
• Leaves : Leaves opposite below, all more or less long-petiolate, lanceolate, cuneate at base, denticulate along the margin.
• Inflorescence & flowers : Flowers actinomorphic, borne in a leafy raceme; calyx with acute, non-mucronate sepals; petals pale pink to whitish-pink in broader floristic descriptions; stigma deeply four-lobed and spreading.
• Fruit : Capsule linear, elongate and four-locular, dehiscing by four valves separating from the central seed-bearing column; fruit details are given by Mouterde for the genus, not specifically expanded for this species.
• Phenology : Flowers from June to September.
• Habitat & elevation : Wooded places; in the broader European range, usually associated with light woodland, forest edges, mountain roadsides and siliceous or acidic substrates. (Osogovo nature)
• Lebanese distribution : Mouterde mentions it as perhaps collected at Hasroun by Blanche, but does not confirm it as a secure Lebanese record.
• Native range : Albania, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Corse, Cyprus, Czechia-Slovakia, East Aegean Is., France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Krym, Madeira, Netherlands, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, Switzerland, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe.
• Diagnostic remarks : Distinguished from Epilobium montanum by its lanceolate leaves, all distinctly petiolate and cuneate at the base, rather than subsessile, ovate to broadly lanceolate leaves rounded at the base; also separated from E. hirsutum and E. parviflorum by the absence of long spreading stem hairs, non-amplexicaul petiolate leaves, and a smaller, more glabrous general aspect. Mouterde regarded its occurrence in Lebanon as uncertain, noting only a possible record from Hasroun, while confirming it several times from Hatay.