General Appearance
Calepina irregularis (Asso) Thell., it is an annual herb, up to 20-60 (-80) cm tall, glabrous, ± glaucous, simple or branched from the base. Basal leaves up to 9 cm long, lyrate to sinuate-dentate. Cauline leaves smaller, oblong, ovate to lanceolate, sessile, auricled at base, dentate to almost entire. Racemes 20-5o-flowered. Flowers white rarely pinkish, c. 6 mm across. Sepals c. 1.5 mm long. Petals unequal, inner 2 c. 2 mm long, outer 2 c. 3 mm long. Stamens c. 1.5-2 mm long; anthers c. 0.25 mm long. Pedicels 3-5 mm long increasing up to 12 mm in fruit, filiform. Siliculae 2.5-4 x 2-2.5 (-3) mm, ovoid-globose to ellipsoid, shortly beaked, reticulately rugose. Seed c. 1.5 mm in diam. whitish.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
Jabal Nafusa: Wadi Kaam (Main course) 2022
Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Entre Karmous et Tecnis 1938
Notes
Wild in Libya.
This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:279822-1
Link of images: https://www.actaplantarum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=13005#p13005, https://osogovonature.com/2021/03/28/calepina-irregularis-asso-thell/, https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:279822-1, https://www.i-flora.com/en/fact-sheets/search-for-species/art/show/calepina-irregularis.html
For more information
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:279822-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/279822-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000580142, https://www.gbif.org/species/119172232, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/140975/calepina-irregularis-asso-thell, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/calirr/, https://www.actaplantarum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=13005#p13005, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=1685, https://osogovonature.com/2021/03/28/calepina-irregularis-asso-thell/, https://www.i-flora.com/en/fact-sheets/search-for-species/art/show/calepina-irregularis.html
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. 52.
Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:
Almushghub, F., Ahmed, D., Sharaf El-Din, A., Shaltout, k. (2022) Vegetation analysis of Wadi Kaam at northwest Libya. Journal of Basic and Environmental Sciences, 9 (2022) 20-37. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357516127_Vegetation_analysis_of_Wadi_Kaam_at_northwest_Libya, https://jbes.journals.ekb.eg/article_372060_558ee8095e2cf97881a8a3cc705aa126.pdf
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