General Appearance
Anthemis kruegeriana Pamp. / Syn. Anthemis kruegeriana var. radiata Maire & Weiller, it is an annual small, erect, adpressed. hairy, hairs woolly and biramus. Stems solitary to few, 3-6 cm long. Branched, erect. Leaves pinnatisect; lobes oblong-linear, distant, entire to rarely dentate, shortly mucronate; base of the petiole entire. Capitula 5-7 mm in diam., discoid or radiate, pedunculate. Peduncles, o.5-1 cm long. Receptacle conical. Involucral bracts 2-rowed, herbaceous, hairy with long woolly hairs; margins and apex broadly hyaline scarious. Outer ones obtuse. Inner ones acuminate. Palea linear concave-carinate; apex yellowish or golden yellow, entire. All florets tubular, golden yellow, hermaphrodite, marginal florets female, ligulate. Cypsela sticky-papillose, obconical, incurved, 4-angled, 10-ribbed; ribs specially of the peripheral ones tuberculate; pappus short, coronate.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
Reported from Wadi Faregh to Maatan Risam and south of Gaser es Sahabi and east of Sirte by Pampanini and Keith
Notes
Wild, endemic in Libya.
Link of images: https://www.gbif.org/species/3122784
First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:
Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1983) Flora of Libya, Asteraceae Vol. (107) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.
Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:
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