Scientific name: | Tordylium trachycarpum (Boiss.) Al-Eisawi & Jury | |
Synonym name: | Ainsworthia trachycarpa Boiss. | |
Common name: | Cow parsnip | |
Hebrew name: | סלסילה מצויה | |
Arabic name: | الطرديلن خشن الثمار | |
Plant Family: | Umbelliferae / Apiaceae, סוככיים |
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Life form: | Therophyte, annual | |
stems: | Erect, terete, ridged, densely scabrous, 20-80cm | |
Leaves: | Alternate, rosette, entire, dissected, pinnate, dentate or serrate, crenulate | |
Flowers: | Sepals absent. Petals white, radiate, the outer 5-8 mm long, unequally 2-lobed, glabrous. Stamens 1.5 mm long. Styles 0.5 mm; stylopodium conical depressed. | |
Fruits / pods: | Mericarps 3-6 mm diameter, orbicular with soft, thick margins and covered with vesicular hairs. | |
Flowering Period: | March, April, May, June | |
Habitat: | Batha, Phrygana | |
Distribution: | Mediterranean Woodlands and Shrublands, Semi-steppe shrublands, Deserts and extreme deserts, Montane vegetation of Mt. Hermon | |
Chorotype: | Mediterranean | |
Summer shedding: | Ephemeral |
Derivation of the botanical name: Tordylium, from tordylon, tordylion Τορδυλιον ancient Greek names for an umbelliferous plant. Ainsworthianamed for Geoffrey Clough Ainsworth (1905–1998), a British mycologist. trachycarpa, trachys, τραχυϛ, "rough, rugged, rocky", carpos, καρποϛ, "fruit"; meaning rough seeded. The Hebrew name: סלסילה, salsila, a small basket, probably a loan word from Akkadian salsilu (= basket).
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