Family |
Boraginaceae
Onosma rascheyana
Boiss.
Onosma rascheyana Boiss.
(Diagn. Pl. Orient. 11: 110; 1849. — Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, p. 461; 1983)
• Life-form & habit: Perennial, pluricaulous herb with woody rhizome. First year forming sterile rosettes, second year producing flowering stems. Stems erect or ascending, 12–25 cm tall, clothed with long spreading setae from indistinct tubercles mixed with short hairs.
• Leaves: Basal and rosette leaves 20–40 × 3–8 mm, spatulate to linear-spatulate, obtuse or subobtuse, tapering into petiole, margins revolute; both surfaces with spreading hairs, denser along midrib beneath. Cauline leaves oblong, broadly sessile at base.
• Inflorescence & flowers: Terminal, initially scorpioid-capitate, later elongating. Bracts large, 15–20 mm, linear from cordate base. Pedicels 1–2 mm, slightly accrescent. Calyx 12–13 mm, accrescent up to 20 mm, lobes linear-lanceolate, c. 1 mm broad, covered in spreading hairs. Corolla 20–25 mm, clavate, versicolorous: yellowish in bud, turning flesh-pink, finally red-orange. Lobes triangular, erect to slightly recurved. Anthers linear, 7–8 mm, free from base, truncate at apex.
• Fruit: Nutlets not described in detail by Mouterde; as in the genus, triquetrous and erect.
• Phenology: Flowers in spring.
• Habitat & elevation: Rocky slopes and mountain woods; elevation not specified by Mouterde.
• Lebanese distribution: Ve. Bois de ‘Amiq, near the source (Mt, det. Samuelsson).
• Syrian distribution: Between Rachaya and Damascus (Boissier, original collection, in flower). A.L. Ouadi-el-Qarn (Samuelsson, Wall). Sy. ‘Azaz (Har.)
• Native range: Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon, southern Turkey, Iraq, and Iran