Flora

Alyssum alyssoides (L.) L.

Family: Brassicaceae

Flowering Time: Feb-Mar.

General Appearance

Alyssum alyssoides (L.) L. / Heterotypic Synonyms: Alyssum minus Rothm., it is an annual herb, erect to ascending or sub spreading, up to 25 (-40) cm long, usually grey-green in appearance, stellately pubescent all over. Leaves oblong-obovate or oblanceolate. Racemes up to 15 cm long, many flowered. Pedicels 3-6 mm long in fruit. Sepals 1.5-2.5 mm long, deciduous. Petals, yellow, 2-3.5 mm long, apex entire to emarginate. Filaments of the short stamens with connate appendages, c. half as long as the filament. Style 0.7-1.5 mm long, pubescent. Fruit, siliculae suborbicular, 3.5-6 mm in diameter, homotrichous usually with equal rays of hairs; valves ± unequally inflated with flattened margin; seeds c. 2 mm with wing up to 0.4 mm wide.

Life Form

Phytochoria

ES+MED+IT. The native range of this species is E. Central Europe to Medit. and Central Asia.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Upper stream of Wadi El-Kouf 1968 Shahat to Faidia, S. of Baida cross roads 1970 Wadi El-Kouf, (7,10 km) from Shahat to Susa, El Goba, (20 km) from Taknis 1973 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 S.AL-Marj 2011 Al-Mansora 2013 Wadi El-Kouf 2014

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_alyssumalyssoid.php, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/alyssum-alyssoides https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=1472

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:277314-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/277314-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000529216 https://www.gbif.org/species/3044855, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/140543/alyssum-alyssoides-l-l, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/alyssum/alyssoides/, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/alyssum-alyssoides, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_alyssumalyssoid.php, https://botany.cz/cs/alyssum-alyssoides/, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=1472, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alyssum_alyssoides

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Ali, S.I. & Jafri, S.M.H. (1977) Flora of Libya, Brassicaceae Vol. (23) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. Page, 128- under Alyssum minus (L.) Rothm.

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

El-Mokasabi, F M. (2014) Floristic Composition and Traditional Uses of Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 14 (8): 685-697, 2014, ISSN 1818-769,IDOSIPublications,2014DOI:10.5829/idosi.aejaes.2014.14.08.12375. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/441b/23b83960f007044aca94e26f5c6b170fe102.pdf

Plant Species at Wadi Alkuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya 2014

Abusaief, H. M. A. and Dakhil, A. H. (2013) The floristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar- Libya. New York Science Journal 2013; 6(5). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Huda-Abusaief

Foristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al- Jabal Al- Akhdar 2013

EL-Barasi, Y. M., Barrani, M. W., Abdelsalam, O. EL-Amrouni, N., Mohamad, F. (2011) Check list of flora and vegetation on south EL-Marj zone: south EL-Jabal EL-Akhadar. Libya. Annals of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara-International Journal of Engineering. Tome IX (Year 2011). Fascicule 3. ISSN 1584-2673, 141-146. http://annals.fih.upt.ro/pdf-full/2011/ANNALS-2011-3-24.pdf

FLORA AND VEGETATION ON SOUTH EL-MARJ ZONE SOUTH EL-JABAL EL-AKHADAR.2011

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).