Flaveria bidentis (L.) Kuntze

Family: Asteraceae

General Appearance

Flaveria bidentis (L.) Kuntze , it is a glabrescent annual, up to 20-60 (80) cm, with much branched stems. Leaves laceolate-elliptic, 3.5 -10 cm long and 0.6-1.8 wide, sparsely serrate to dentate to sub entire, petiolae or almost sessile. Capitula are small in congested scorpioid terminal glomerules, and irregulary rayed. Involucre about 0.5 long and 1 mm wide, almost cylindrical; phyllaries 2-serrate, obtuse. Ray florets are 2-3 with pale yellow corolla. Disc florets 3-8 mm long and 3-3.5 mm wide. Achenes of ray florets 2.5 mm, cylindrical, black. Achenes of disc florets 2 mm long and 0.5 mm wide, ellpsoid, black.

Life Form

Th

Phytochoria

S.Cosm. The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical America.

Distribution in Libya

Fezzan area:  Murzuq farms, Murzuq 2015

Notes

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:

Erteeb, F.B & Sharashi, O. (2015) New Records for the Flora of Libya. The Libyan Journal of Science (An International Journal): Volume 18, 2014/2015. https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/article/view/102https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/issue/view/24

New Records for the Flora of Libya 2015

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