General Appearance
Crepis amplexifolia Willk., it is an annual herb, hispid, up to 10-40 cm. Basal leaves petiolate, dentate to lyrate pinnatifid. Cauline leaves truncate or cordate and amplexicaule at the base. Capitula many flowered. Involucre 8-14 x 4-7 mm. canescent-tomentose and finely glandular pubescent. Inner involucral bracts indurating and enclosing the peripheral cypsela at maturity. Cypsela dimorphic, 4–6 mm; peripheral cypsela, attenuate above, unbaked; inner cypsela abruptly contracted into beak; beak as long as the cypsela body; pappus 3-5 mm. 1-seriate, very fine, soft, and deciduous.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
Al-Jafarah Plain:
Reported from Tripoli (Sidi Mesri, Ain Zara) by Durand & Barratte
Jabal Nafusa:
Reported from Gharian by Durand & Barratte
Notes
Wild in Libya.
Link of images: https://www.gbif.org/species/5403368, https://www.floramaroccana.fr/crepis-amplexifolia.html
For more information
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:199664-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/199664-1. http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000021647, https://www.gbif.org/species/5403368, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/137225/crepis-amplexifolia-godr-willk, https://www.floramaroccana.fr/crepis-amplexifolia.html
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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