Flora

Arnebia decumbens (Vent.) Coss. & Kralik

Common Name: Erer.

Family: Boraginaceae

Flowering Time: Feb-Jun.

General Appearance

Arnebia decumbens (Vent.) Coss. & Kralik / Homotypic Synonyms: Arnebia decumbens var. macrocalyx Coss.& Kral. // Infraspecific: Arnebia decumbens ssp. decumbens , Arnebia decumbens ssp. macrocalyx (Coss. & Kralik) Riedl, it is an annual herb, up to (5-) 10-15 (-30) cm tall, with spreading bulbous based hairs. Stem usually one or branched at the base. Lower leaves linear-oblong. Upper leaves linear-lanceolate, entire, 30-60 (-70) x 3-6 (7) mm, acute or obtuse. Bracts almost as long as calyx, c. 2 mm broad, elliptic or narrowly elliptic ovate. Pedicel very short. Calyx lobes linear-filiform-4-8 x 0.5-1.5 mm elongated in fruit up to 8-15 mm with indurated base, gibbous, crested at angles, connivent. Corolla yellow, 6-13 mm long with a hirsute tube; limb 2-1.5 mm in diameter, lobes rounded erect. Anthers c. 1 mm long. Style twice bifid, c. 6 mm long, stigma,4 capitate. Nutlets 4, ovate, 2-2.5 mm long, with an acuminate beak, verruculose.

Life Form

Phytochoria

SA +IT. The native range of this species is Canary Islands, N. Africa to Mongolia and Arabian Peninsula..

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Al-kararim 1968

Sirte Plains: (25 km) W. of Sirte, El-Brega to Ajdabia 1968 Wadi Jarif project, (15 km) before Ras Lanuf, (30 km) N. of El-Brega 1978

Benghazi Plain: Wadi El Ghattara 2010

Jabal Nafusa: Wadi Malah, (10 km) from Nalut 1972 Kabau, (15 km) after Kaleba to Mizda 1974 Nalut, Gharian 1975 Shakshuk, (30 km) befor Nalut 1976 Misallata, Hafs 1978 Misallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Tarhuna (Arabeen, Wlaad Hammad) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Al-Ghareeba, Ras El-Hilal 1978

Ghadames area: After Senawen, (109 km) from Nalout to Ghadames 1975

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.teline.fr/fr/photos/boraginaceae/arnebia-decumbens, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/3749.html, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ARNDEC/

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:113451-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/113451-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000549466, https://www.gbif.org/species/7806790, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/132325/arnebia-decumbens-vent-coss-kralik, https://www.teline.fr/fr/photos/boraginaceae/arnebia-decumbens, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ARNDEC/, https://www.plantarium.ru/page/view/item/3749.html, https://botany.cz/cs/arnebia-decumbens/

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. 67.

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

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

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

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).