Flora

Bupleurum odontites L.

Family: Apiaceae

Flowering Time: Apr-Jul.

General Appearance

Bupleurum odontites L., it is an annual herb erect or spreading, up to 50 cm tall, dichotomously branched with finely sulcate stem. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 2-10 (-17) x 0.3-1 cm, acuminate, (3-) 5-7-veined. glabrous, upper leaves amplexicaute. Umbcls 4-7-rayed, on terminal and axillary, 3-15 mm long peduncles; rays very unequal, up to 35 mm long, glabous. Bracts (4-) 5 (-6), nearly free, lanceolate, 1- 4.5 x 0.2-0.5 cm, acute, acute-acuminate, usually 3-nerved with ascending transverse veinlets, translucent between the veinlels at fruiting stage, narrowly membranous margined. Umbellules 8-l3-flowercd. Pedicels filiform, up to 8 mm long, unequal. Bractlets usually 5, narrowly lanceolate, 5-20 x 1.5-4 mm, acuminate, enlarged and erect in fruit. Petals narrowly oblong, 0.6-0.8 mm long, with a strongly incurved, truncate emarginate apex, yellowish-green. Anthers oblong-suborbicular, yellow. Styles shorter than the stylopodium. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, 1.5-1.8 x c. I mm, dark brown, enveloped by indurated bractlets; mericarps smooth with inconspicuous ribs and oil ducts.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is Central & E. Medit.

Distribution in Libya

Benghazi Plain:

Wadi El-Enaghar 2021

Jabal Nafusa:

Misallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhader:

(5 km) from Shahat to Al-Bida 1972 From Lustata to Beshtaya 2019

Notes

Wild in Libya, Occurs on relatively thick soil, in dry, grassy places, along roads, in field boundaries and abandoned arable land.

Link of images: https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=1402, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/BUPODO/

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:839296-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/839296-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000575605, https://www.gbif.org/species/3034552, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/154408/bupleurum-odontites-l, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/BUPODO/, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=1402, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/bupleurum/odontites/, http://e-ecodb.bas.bg/rdb/en/vol1/Bupodont.html

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1985) Flora of Libya, Apiaceae Vol. (117) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

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

Omar, N., El-Mghrbi, N.G., Rahil, R.O., Alaib, M.A., Alzerbi, A.K. (2021) Floristic Composition and Plant Diversity of Western Part of Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya. Species-22(70), 2021. pp. (204-217). http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/index.htm, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/A4.pdf

Mahklouf, M.H., Sherif, A.S., Betelmal, A.G. (2020) Floristic Study and Species Diversity of Msallata-Garaboulli Province in Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology Volume 7 / Issue 3 ISSN: 2348-7313. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341306643_Floristic_Study_and_Species_Diverisy_of_Msallata-Garaboulli_Province_in_Libya

Ali, A. M., Lashhab, S. R., Abu-Aweena, A. A.M. (2019) Classification of vegetation cover and its geographical distribution in the area extending between Al-Haniya and Wadi Zagzoog in the north to Lasastata and Bishtaya in the south. Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar eastern Libya. Issue (61) Journal of Science and Human Studies- Al-Marj-University of Benghazi-Libya (In Arabic) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/sd-lshhb

Mohammed, S.A.H. (2008) A taxonomic and ecological study of the plants of the Shaafin Reserve in Masalatah. Master Thesis. Department of Biology-Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Al-Mirqab University. Al-Khums. Libya. (In Arabic)