Flora

Nolletia chrysocomoides (Desf.) Cass. ex Less.

Family: Asteraceae

Flowering Time: Oct-Jan.

General Appearance

Nolletia chrysocomoides (Desf.) Cass. ex Less., it is a perennial, up to 15-30 cm. small, appressed-grey pubescent, bushy with a long, thick tap-root. Stems much branched; branches slender, erect or ascending, leafy, briute. Leaves 10-25 x 1-1.5 mm, linear, sessile, entire, obtuse, green; surface appressed pubescent. Capitula hemispherical, c. 10 mm in diam., solitary on the ends of branches. Involucre c. 6 mm. Involucral bracts linear-lanceolate, acuminate, appressed pubescent hairy, all deflexed in fruiting. Inner involucral bracts twice as long as or longer than the outer ones. Florets yellow. Cypsela c. 1 mm. scabrid-pubcrulent; pappus usually exceeding the corolla.

Life Form

Phytochoria

The native range of this species is N. Africa to Mauritania.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain: (8 km) from Al-Assa to Rgdalin, (10 km) from Zuara to Ferwa, Between Bin Ghashir and Tarhuna 1976 Researches Station of Agriculture Faculty, University of Tripoli 2021

Zliten-Misurata Plain: Sea shore north of Misurata 1967 Leptus Megna 1974 Misurata 2006

Sirte Plains: (10 km) before Sirte, roadside, stony ground 1977

Jabal Nafusa: Ginoun, ner Jado, (15 km) from Shakshook 1974 Between Bin Ghashir and Tarhuna 1976 Misallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Tarhuna (Msabha) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Al-Qibla area: Wadis South of Mizda 2013

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://atlas-sahara.org/Asteraceae/Nolletia%20chrysocomoides/Nolletia%20chrysocomoides.html?cat=Asteraceae, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/asteraceae/nolletia-chrysocomoides#photo-1

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77181288-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/77181288-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000026468, https://www.gbif.org/species/3141906, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/138509/nolletia-chrysocomoides-desf-cass, https://atlas-sahara.org/Asteraceae/Nolletia%20chrysocomoides/Nolletia%20chrysocomoides.html?cat=Asteraceae, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/asteraceae/nolletia-chrysocomoides#photo-1

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:

Al-Sghair, F.G. and Mahklouf, M.H. (2021) Vegetation Survey for Vascular Plants of Protected Area of the University of Tripoli-Libya. Species. Vol.22 (69), 2021. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n69/index.htm, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n69/A1.pdf

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

El-Ahmir, S.M., Mahklouf, M.H., Shanta, M.B., Abo-Jaafer, H.A. (2020) Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District-Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology. Volume 8 / Issue 1. ISSN: 2348-7313. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sh-Hoob-El-Ahmir, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf

Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District – Libya. 2020

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

Floristic Study and Species Diverisy of Msallata-Garaboulli Province. 2020

Mahklouf, M.H. Sherif, A.S, Betelmal, A. G. (2018) Floristic Study for Tarhuna-Libya. Hacettepe J. Biol. & Chem, 2018, 46 (3), 337-364. http://www.hjbc.hacettepe.edu.tr/journal/volume-46/issue-3/floristic-study-for-tarhuna-libya/index.html

Floristic Study for Tarhuna–Libya. 2018

Mohamed, F.J. (2013) A Taxonomic Study of Wadis Flora South of Mizda at the intersections with Mizda-Sebha Highway. Master Thesis. Department of Botany-Faculty of Science-Sebha University. Libya. (In Arabic).

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-Dana, S. M. M. (2006) Taxonomic study of wild flower plants in some areas of Misrata. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Misurata University (7 October previously) Misurata, Libya. (In Arabic).