Flora

Anchusa aegyptiaca (L.) A.DC.

Family: Boraginaceae

Flowering Time: Feb-Apr.

General Appearance

Anchusa aegyptiaca (L.) A.DC., it is an erect, procumbent or ascending annual herb, up to 5·40 cm long, densely hispid with tubercle based hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or linear to sub entire. Lower leaves petiolate, upper sessile to sub sessile 30-80 (-100) x (5-) 10-15 mm (including petiole). Cymes lax. Bracts leafy, up to 40 mm long. Flowers with 2-3 mm long pedicels, elongated and more or less recurved in fruit. Calyx 3-5 mm long, divided almost up to the base, lobes linear to narrowly ovate, up to7-8 mm in fruit. Corolla 8-10 mm long, yellow, tube 4-5 mm long, with limb of 3-5 mm in diameter, lobes slightly unequal; scales hairy, elongated, curved, ± exerted, Stamens inserted almost in the middle of the tube, arranged in 2 whorls of 2 and 3; anthers c. 1 mm long. Nutlets ovoid, erect, 4-5 x 2-3 mm, rugose to tuberculate.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED+SA+IT. The native range of this species is E. Medit. to S. Iran and Arabian Peninsula.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain: Research station of Agriculture faculties 2017

Benghazi Plain: Between Al-Kuwafyfiyah and Daryanah, N.E. Benghazi 1968 Wadi El Ghattara 2010 Wadi El-Enaghar 2021

Jabal Nafusa: (25 km) S.W. Gharian 1967 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Wadi Derna 1967 El-karsa, coastal road Dema-Ras El-Hilal, (19, 25 km) S.E. Derna 1968 Wadi Mahbool, Baida-Derna coastal road, 1973 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 Wadi (Valley) Stowah region 2007 From Nuqrat Said to Wadi Al-Zagzoog 2019

Marmarica Plateau: Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 Al-Tamimi, Omm Al-Razum 1968 From Tobruk to Egyptian Border 1999 Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002

Al-Jufra area: Zella 2008

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.cretanflora.com/anchusa_aegyptiaca.html, https://www.orchid-nord.com/Flore-Rhodes/Boraginaceae/Anchusa%20aegyptiaca/Anchusa-aegyptiaca.html, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ANCAEG/

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:113174-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/113174-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000533528, https://www.gbif.org/species/7432336, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/132285/anchusa-aegyptiaca-l-a-dc, https://biodiversitycyprus.blogspot.com/2016/02/anchusa-aegyptiaca-l-dc-cyprus.html, https://www.ksanature.com/plants/anchusa_aegyptiaca/, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ANCAEG/, https://savvastryfonosplants.com/anchusa-aegyptiaca/, https://www.orchid-nord.com/Flore-Rhodes/Boraginaceae/Anchusa%20aegyptiaca/Anchusa-aegyptiaca.html, https://botany.cz/en/anchusa-aegyptiaca/

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1979) Flora of Libya, Boraginaceae Vol. (68) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. Page. 13.

Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:

Omar, N., El-Mghrbi, N.G., Rahil, R.O., Alaib, M.A., Alzerbi, A.K. (2021) Floristic Composition and Plant Diversity of Western Part of Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya. Species-22(70), 2021. pp. (204-217). http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/index.htm, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/A4.pdf

Floristic Composition and Plant Diversity of Western Part of Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya. 2021.-مضغوط

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

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

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

Nasif, M. A., Al-Ganoni, A. M., Knotch, O. M., Nafees. A. A. (2017) Survey of weeds in the research station of the Faculty of Agriculture-University of Tripoli. Libyan Journal of Agricultural Sciences, No. (1) Vol (22) p. (35-46). (In Arabic).

مسح الحشائش في محطة ابحاث كلية الزراعة – جامعة طرابلس. 2017

El-Rabiai, G.T., Al tira, F.M., Lamlom, S.H. (2010) Preliminary Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. Garyounis University Press Journal of Science and Its Applications Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 39-47, December 2010. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Wz8jpkIAAAAJ&hl=ar, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ALTsoucAAAAJ&hl=en, https://journals.uob.edu.ly/index.php/sjuob/issue/view/71

Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. 2010

Baayo, Kh. A. (2008) Floristic composition of Sahara Area in Libya. Catrina (2008), 3(3):37-53.

https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18541_f0ebe9187acd58ae16701b93a9bf9cc2.pdf

Nawras, A. M. B. (2007) A study of the vegetation cover in the Wadi (Valley) Stowah region. Master Thesis. Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University-Libya. (In Arabic).

El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H. (2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmed-Gawhari, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281559070_Checklist_and_analysis_of_the_flora_and_vegetation_of_Wadi_Zaza_at_AI-Jabal_AI_Akhdar_Cyrenaica_Libya

Flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at Al-Jabal AI Akhdar 2003-مضغوط

El-Shaary M.S. (2002). The Natural Vegetation in Marmarica plateau (North-eastern Libya). First ed. Tobruk (Libya): Published by the local Authority. (In Arabic).

Al-Hamadi R.I. (1999) Floristic and ecological study of Wadi Al-Agar, Master Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic).

EL-Habony, A.M. (1999) Vegetation and flora of a sector along Mediterranean cost of Libya from Tobruk to Egyptian border, M.Sc. Thesis, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (in Arabic).

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