Flora

Narcissus tazetta L.

Common Name: Nargis

Family: Amaryllidaceae

Flowering Time: Oct-Feb.

General Appearance

Narcissus tazetta L., it is a perennial plant up to 20-80 cm, glabrous, with large ovoid bulb; leaves 3-6, glaucescent, 4-15 mm wide, flat or grooved, equal to or exceeding the compressed grooved stem; two-tone flowers 2-4 cm in diameter, fragrant, 2-12 in umbels, nodding; spathe broad, equal to the longest peduncles or a little shorter; saucer-shaped perianth, with white divisions, ovate or lanceolate, mucronulate, shorter than the long and narrow tube; yellow crown, cut 3-6 mm high, entire or crenate, equal to a third or half of the perigonal divisions.

Life Form

Phytochoria

S-Cosm. The native range of this species is Canary Islands, Medit. to Afghanistan, SE. China to Japan.

Distribution in Libya

Benghazi Plain:

Wadi El Ghattara 2010

Al-Jabal Al-Akhader:

Reported from Ain Mara by Keit Ain Mara, Al-Gubba 1934 Shahat 1975 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 Wadi El-Kauf 2014 Wadi Al-Agar 2017 Shahat old city 2017

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_narcissustazzeta.php , https://biodiversitycyprus.blogspot.com/2015/12/narcissus-tazetta-l.html https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:66240-1, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/nartaz/

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:66240-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/66240-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000700066, https://www.gbif.org/species/2858963, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/156096/narcissus-tazetta-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/3005.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_narcissustazzeta.php, https://biodiversitycyprus.blogspot.com/2015/12/narcissus-tazetta-l.html, https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/narcissus_tazetta.htm, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/nartaz/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_tazetta

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Amaryllidaceae Vol. (51) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:

Abusaief, H.M.A. & Alwishish, F.M. (2017) Survey of endangered plants and description the seeds in some sites at Al-JabalAl-Akhdar of Libya. Curr. Sci. Int., 6 (3): 511-539, 2017 ISSN 2077-4435. http://www.curresweb.com/csi/csi/2017/511-539.pdf

Al-Aib, M.A., El- Sherif, M., Al-Hamedi, R.I. (2017) Floristic and ecological investigation of Wadi Al-Agar in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya, Science & its applications 5:1 (2017) 57-61. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamed-Alaib

El-Mokasabi, F M. (2014) Floristic Composition and Traditional Uses of Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 14 (8): 685-697, 2014, ISSN 1818-769,IDOSIPublications,2014DOI:10.5829/idosi.aejaes.2014.14.08.12375. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/441b/23b83960f007044aca94e26f5c6b170fe102.pdf

El-Rabiai, G.T., Al tira, F.M., Lamlom, S.H. (2010) Preliminary Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. Garyounis University Press Journal of Science and Its Applications Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 39-47, December 2010. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Wz8jpkIAAAAJ&hl=ar, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ALTsoucAAAAJ&hl=en, https://journals.uob.edu.ly/index.php/sjuob/issue/view/71

El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H. (2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmed-Gawhari, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281559070_Checklist_and_analysis_of_the_flora_and_vegetation_of_Wadi_Zaza_at_AI-Jabal_AI_Akhdar_Cyrenaica_Libya

Al-Hamadi R.I. (1999) Floristic and ecological study of wadi Al-Agar, Master Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic)