Family |
Orobanchaceae
Pedicularis comosa
L.
Pedicularis comosa L.
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 3, p. 269; 1983. First published in Species Plantarum: 600, 1753)
• Life-form & habit: Perennial, pubescent or glabrous; root with napiform fibres.
• Leaves: Outline lanceolate, pinnatisect with cartilaginous-dentate segments. Bracts variable: lower ones pinnatifid, upper ones entire.
• Inflorescence & flowers: Calyx campanulate-cylindrical, membranous, with very short ovate-obtuse teeth, broader than long. Corolla whitish-yellow, 21–24 mm long; upper lip incurved, subretuse; lower lip with obtuse or retuse lobes, ciliolate or glabrous on the margin. Throat with two long parallel ridges. Two staminal filaments hairy.
• Fruit: Capsule oblong, curved at the apex, longer than the calyx. Seeds numerous, reticulate.
• Phenology: Flowers June–August.
• Habitat & elevation: High-mountain meadows and slopes.
• Lebanese distribution: Only recorded from Neba‘ Souccar above Sir (North Lebanon), single collection known.
• Native range: Mountains of central and southern Europe, Russia, Siberia