Flora

Atractylis serratuloides Sieber ex Cass.

Common Name: Shobrum.

Family: Asteraceae

Flowering Time: May-Jun.

General Appearance

Atractylis serratuloides Sieber ex Cass., it is a perennial, caulescent, glabrescent or hairy (in the young parts), tufted; 15-20 (-30) cm tall and often 25-30 cm in diam. Stems & branches often brittle, rigid, interlaced, with white or whitish-grey bark peelings. Cauline leaves (10-) 20·30 x5-8 mm, lanceolate, pinnatisect, greyish pubescent or canescent on both faces; latera lobes often double spiny; spine yellowish, up to 5 mm. Capitula discoid, pale flesh or whitish (the Libyan taxon has white florets), terminal at the ends of branches. Involucre ovate to ovate-oblong. (7-) 10-14 mm long and 5-8 (-10) mm in dim, (exclude. outermost, erecto-patent, leafy, supplementary involucral bracts). Supplementary involucral bracts sub-1-rowed, 2-6, 9-20 x 3-6 mm, similar to upper cauline leaves. Involucral bracts of the 1st row 4 x 1 mm, ovate, greyish cobwebby on the dorsal face; margins narrowly scarious; apex gradually tappered into a 1-25 mm yellowish mucro. Involucral bracts of the 2nd row 5 x 1.5 mm, oblong, cobwebby at the dorsal surface forming a characteristic triangular area below the mucro; somewhat broadly scarious, apex abruptly narrowed into 1.25 mm, yellowish mucro. Subsequent involucral bracts 6-8 x 3-5 mm, broadly lanceolate to broadly oblanceolate, cobwebby below the mucro; margins broadly scarious; apex abruptly narrowed into a 1.25-2 mm long mucro. Involucral bracts of penultimate row 12 x 3 mm, oblanceolate; margins scarious; apex abruptly narrowed into a 2 mm mucro. Innermost involucral bracts 10-12 x 0.5-1 mm, linear to linear-lanceolate, glabrous or slightly hairy below the mucro; margins scarious, distantly ciliolate; apex gradually mucronate; mucro 2-2,5 mm. Corolla 7-8 mm long. Cypsela (immature) 4.5-5 mm; pappus setae up to 7 mm, connate in a ring at the base, dark brown with lateral branches dirty white.

Life Form

Phytochoria

SA. The native range of this species is N. Africa to Palestine.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain:

Sabrath 2008 Bir-Ayad 2013 Jafara Plain (Wadi Ghado) 2015 Mallaha Wetland Tripoli 2016 Sabratha 2019 Sabratha region 2020 Coastal of Tripoli 2020 Researches Station of Agriculture Faculty, University of Tripoli 2021

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Kaam area 2005 Wadi Kaam (Estuary) 2022 Zliten (Wadi EL-Zekr) 2022

Benghazi Plain:

Msus-Al-Ajramia zone 2004 Ajdabia (Al-Bedan), Al-Jaledia) 2017

Jabal Nafusa:

Reported from Bir Alleg, Kussbat by Durand & Barratte Ragrag Tejwean, Gebel Nafousa 1970 Wazen, Yefren 1974 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Abughilan 2016 Al-Assaba 2018 Tarhuna (Hejaz, Meg¬hawsha, Terghlat) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 Wadi Kaam (Main course) 2022

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:

S. of AL-Marj 2011 Sidi Abu-Ras 2016 From Zawiet Tamula to Al-Manarh 2019

Al-Qibla area:

Wadi Nesma region 2009 Wadis South of Mizda 2013

Notes

Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.

Link of images: https://atlas-sahara.org/Asteraceae/Atractylis%20serratuloides/Atractylis%20serratuloides.html?cat=Asteraceae, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/asteraceae/atractylis-serratuloides, https://www.gbif.org/species/5398251

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:182966-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/182966-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000057904, https://www.gbif.org/species/5398251, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/136118/atractylis-serratuloides-sieber-ex-cass, https://atlas-sahara.org/Asteraceae/Atractylis%20serratuloides/Atractylis%20serratuloides.html?cat=Asteraceae, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/asteraceae/atractylis-serratuloides, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.k000768856

Bibliographic References

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Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1983) Flora of Libya, Asteraceae Vol. (107) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

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Almushghub, F., Ahmed, D., Sharaf El-Din, A., Shaltout, k. (2022) Vegetation analysis of Wadi Kaam at northwest Libya. Journal of Basic and Environmental Sciences, 9 (2022) 20-37. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357516127_Vegetation_analysis_of_Wadi_Kaam_at_northwest_Libya, https://jbes.journals.ekb.eg/article_372060_558ee8095e2cf97881a8a3cc705aa126.pdf

Vegetation analysis of Wadi Kaam at northwest Libya.2022

El-Karnawdy, F.O.M. & Swaisy, A.S.M. (2022) Current status of floristic structure in Wadi EL-Zekr, Zliten City, Libya. Middle East International Conference on Contemporary Scientific Studies-VII-Beirut Arab University, Lebanon-March 3-4, 2022. https://www.middleeastconference.org/conference-books

Current status of floristic structure in Wadi EL-Zekr, Zliten City, Libya. 2022

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Vegetation Survey of Protected Area of the University of Tripoli-Libya. 2021

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