Family |
Boraginaceae
Heliotropium rotundifolium
Sieber ex Lehm.
Heliotropium rotundifolium Sieber ex Lehm.
First published in Icon. Descr. Nov. Stirp. 2: t. 19 (1822).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, p. 53, Pl. XXVIII, 1; 1983)
Description
Life-form & habit: Plant 20–50 cm tall, woody at the crown and greyish with a dense covering of very short hairs.
Leaves: Ovate to rounded, blunt and strongly veined; lower leaves on long stalks, the others shortly stalked.
Inflorescence & flowers: Long, one-sided cymes that become loose. Calyx woolly, shorter than the corolla tube, with blunt elliptic-linear lobes. Corolla tube silky outside and hairless inside; the limb equals the tube in length. Stigma almost stalkless, elongated-conical and hairy at the tip.
Fruit: Hairless nutlets with fine tubercles.
Flowering and habitat
Phenology: June–November.
Habitat & elevation: Rocky ground.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Near Hermel, Qaa and the sources of the Orontes; also recorded at Baskinta.
Syrian distribution: Damascus, Jabal Qasyoun, the Barada, Hamme, Deraa, Adra and east of Dmeir.
Native range: Egypt, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai.