Flora

Buglossoides tenuiflora (L.f.) I.M.Johnst.

Family: Boraginaceae

Flowering Time: Feb-Apr.

General Appearance

Buglossoides tenuiflora (L.f.) I.M.Johnst., it is an annual herb, stem 5-30(-50) cm, with 1 to many branches, with appressed hispid setulose hairs. Cauline leaves oblong, oblong-linear or oblong-lanceolate, usually with a broad sessile base, 15-40 x (2-) 3-8 mm with obtuse apex. Cymes up to 80 (-120) mm in fruit, usually paired or sometimes 3 together. Flowers bracteates, Bracts foliaceous; pedicel 1-2 mm long, slightly thickened and increasing after fruiting. Calyx 3-4 mm long, lobes linear-lanceolate, covered with yellowish spreading hairs, up to 10 mm long in fruit, with indurate base. Corolla 5-0 mm, bluish or white with c. 1.5-2 mm broad limb, tube narrowly cylindrical, band of hairs in the throat smaller than the Buglossoides arvensis (L.) I.M.Johnst., Nutlets c. 2 mm erect, urceolate in outline, distinctly 2-gibbous laterally on the back, abruptly ending in a beak, tuberculate or scorbiculate with a fragile pericarp.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED+IT. The native range of this species is E. Medit. to NW. Himalaya.

Distribution in Libya

Benghazi Plain: Reported from Benghazi by Durand & Barratte

Jabal Nafusa: Ain Rumyah 1968 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Derna 2017

Marmarica Plateau: Reported from Tobrouk by Pampanini

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://biodiversitycyprus.blogspot.com/2016/03/buglossoides-tenuiflora-l-f-i-m-johnst.html, https://www.gbif.org/species/4062005

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:113733-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/113733-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000574446, https://www.gbif.org/species/4062005, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/132777/lithospermum-tenuiflorum-l-f, https://biodiversitycyprus.blogspot.com/2016/03/buglossoides-tenuiflora-l-f-i-m-johnst.html https://www.ksanature.com/plants/buglossoides_tenuiflora/, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/bugten/

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. 82.

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

Ab-Aziza, F.B., El–Barasi, Y.M. and Rahil, R.O. (2017) Flora, Vegetation and Human Activities of Wadi Derna-El-Jabal. Research article I Botany l Version 1. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fatma-Abuaziza, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebeh-Rahil

Flora, Vegetation and Human Activities of Wadi Derna. 2017

Al-Masalati, N. A. A. (2013) Plant diversity across the altitudes of the Msallata National Park Reserve Mountains. Master Thesis. Botany Department-College of Science-University of Benghazi-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-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).

Prodr. Fl. Ciren.: 379 (1931). https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/records/item/14218-prodromo-della-flora-cirenaica

Fl. Liby. Prodr. : 168 (1910). https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6399663s