Flora

Scorzoneroides simplex (Viv.) Greuter

Common Name: Murrare.

Family: Asteraceae

Flowering Time: Feb-Jun.

General Appearance

Scorzoneroides simplex (Viv.) Greuter / Homotypic Synonyms: Leontodon simplex (Viv.) Widder, it is an annual herb, with slender tap root. Stems 1-4 (-7), (5-) 10-35 cm, simple, scapiform or 2 (-3) branched above, glabrous or sparsely pubescent below the capitulum, with 1-3 bracts. Bracts 2-4 (-6), ± clasping the peduncle. Leaves all basal, 10-60 (-150) x 5-15 (-25) mm. oblong to oblanceolate, shallowly sinnuate-toothed to pinnatifid, gradually tapered into ± long petiole, glabrous or with occasional, simple hairs on margins and under surface. Capitula 1(-2) per branch, long pedunculate. Involucre 8-10 (-12) x 7-9 (-10) mm. bracts 3 (-4) rowed; glabrous, eglandular hairy pubescent or occasionally with few setulose hairs restricted on the median nerve. Outer most involucral bracts 3-4 mm long, ovate, acute. Inner involucral bracts 10-12 (-13) mm, lanceolate, narrowly scarious margined, obtuse with apex: finely ciliate. Ligules yellow, usually concolorous, basal tubes 3-4 (-5) mm, finely pubescent; limbs 9-10 (-12) mm. Stigmas yellow. Cypsela dark brown, strongly transversely muricate, dimorphic; those of the periphcri 4-4.5 (-5) mm, narrowed into a beak, weakly incurved-loosely infolded by the inner most involucral bracts, epappose; pappus (when present) irregularly coroniform, of short scales or occasionally of 1-2 long, plumose setae, often deciduous; inner cypselas 6-7 (-8) mm, straight, narrowed into a long beak, pappose; pappus of 1-row of c. 10 setae; setae plumose.

Life Form

Phytochoria

The native range of this species is Mauritania, Libya to NW. Egypt.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain: Wadi Al-Hera, Sug Al-Sabet 1976 Wadi Al-Mjenin, (36 km) from Tripoli to Gasr Bin Ghasheer 1977 Al-Hdaba Treatment Plant Tripoli 2016 Mallaha Wetland Tripoli 2016 Sabratha 2019 Sabratha region 2020 Coastal of Tripoli 2020 Researches Station of Agriculture Faculty, University of Tripoli 2021

Benghazi Plain: Msus-Al-Ajramia zone 2004 Between Slouk and Al-Abiar 2016

Jabal Nafusa: Al-Riyaina, Tarhuna 1972 (36 km) N. of Nalut 1975 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Tarhuna (Terghlat) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Wadi Al-Agar 1999 S. of AL-Marj 2011 From Zawiet Tamula to Al-Manarh 2019

Marmarica Plateau: Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002

Al-Qibla area: Wadis South of Mizda 2013

Ghat area: Ghat (Between Acacus and Tassili Mountains) 2004 Wadi Tanezzuft 2012

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.gbif.org/species/3133499

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77075533-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/77075533-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000058092, https://www.gbif.org/species/3133499, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/184213/scorzoneroides-simplex-viv-greuter-talavera

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. Page. 349 – under: Leontodon simplex (Viv.) Widder

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

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

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

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Biodiversity of the coastal flora of Tripoli Province. 2020

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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

Ali, A. M., Lashhab, S. R., Abu-Aweena, A. A.M. (2019) Classification of vegetation cover and its geographical distribution in the area extending between Al-Haniya and Wadi Zagzoog in the north to Lasastata and Bishtaya in the south. Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar eastern Libya. Issue (61) Journal of Science and Human Studies- Al-Marj-University of Benghazi-Libya (In Arabic). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/sd-lshhb, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339238955_tsnyf_alghta_alnbaty_wtwzyh_aljghrafy_fy_almntqt_almmtdt_ma_byn_alhnyt_wwady_alzqzwq_shmala_hty_lstath_wbshtaya_jnwba_aljbl_alakhdr_shrq_lybya

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