Flora

Carlina involucrata Poir.

Family: Asteraceae

Flowering Time: May-Aug.

General Appearance

Carlina involucrata Poir., it is a perennial plants caulescent, up to 30-70 cm, sparsely branched or simple, with or without a few basal leaves. Leaves coriaceous, hairy, spiny. Lower cauline leaves oblong-lanceolate, pinnatisect nearly up to the midrib with narrow lobes. Median & upper cauline leaves lanceolate to oblong elliptic; lobes with stout spines. Capitula 30-60 mm in diam., obconical to broadly obconical. Outer involucral bracts lanceolate, with conspicuous clavate-thickened bases, pectinato-spinescent. Inner involucral bracts radiating, yellow or sometimes purplish above, up to 2 mm broad, glabrous or ciliate at the bases. Florets yellow.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is Sicilia, Malta, NW. Africa.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Kaam area 2005

Benghazi Plain:

Reported from Benghazi by Durand & Barratte

Jabal Nafusa:

Misallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:

Reported from Al-Bida by Durand & Barratte

Marmarica Plateau:

Reported from Tobruk by Durand & Barratte Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://maltawildplants.com/ASTR/Carlina_involucrata.php, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=6127

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:189261-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/189261-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000129077, https://www.gbif.org/species/3105425, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/136457/carlina-involucrata-poir, https://maltawildplants.com/ASTR/Carlina_involucrata.php, https://www.floramaroccana.fr/carlina-involucrata.html, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=6127

Bibliographic References

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:

Saaed, M.W.B., EL-Barasi, Y.M. & Rahil, R.O. (2021) An updated checklist and quantitative analysis of the Marmarica Plateau flora, in the north-eastern part of Libya. Phytotaxa 509 (1): 001-055. https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.509.1.1

An-updated-checklist-and-quantitative-analysis-of-the-Marmarica-Plateau-flora-مضغوط

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

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).

Al-Shif, N. S. (2005) a taxonomic study of the plants of the Kaam region. Master Thesis, College of Science, Al-Marqab University, Al-Khums, Libya. (In Arabic).