Flora

Euploca ovalifolia (Forssk.) Diane & Hilger

Family: Boraginaceae

General Appearance

Euploca ovalifolia (Forssk.) Diane & Hilger / Homotypic Synonyms: Heliotropium ovalifolium Forssk., it is decumbent annual or perennial herb, sometimes erect, up to 60 cm. Leaves alternate, numerous, obovate or elliptic, covered in long and short silvery hairs; margin slightly revolute. Flowers in elongated inflorescences, eventually up to 17 cm, white with yellow inside the corolla tube, hairy on the outside. Fruits 1.5 × 2 mm, depressed sub globular, densely covered in short hairs.

Life Form

Phytochoria

The native range of this species is Türkiye to Egypt, Dry Tropical Africa, Madagascar, Arabian Peninsula, Indian Subcontinent to Indo-China, Lesser Sunda Islands, Solomon Islands.

Distribution in Libya

Tripolitania: Reported from the former Tripolitania by Keith

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Euploca+ovalifolia, https://www.gbif.org/species/4062375

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:60430581-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/60430581-2, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000682799, https://www.gbif.org/species/4062375, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/200250/euploca-ovalifolia-forssk-diane-hilger, https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=148370, https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Euploca+ovalifolia, https://botany.cz/cs/heliotropium-ovalifolium/

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. 57 – under: Heliotropium ovalifolium Forssk.

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

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