General Appearance
Erucaria hispanica (L.) Druce, it is an annual or biennial, glabrous herb, erect stem, up to 50 cm. Leaves, green, petiolate, bipinnatisect, somewhat fleshy, 10-15 cm long; lobes linear to thread-like. Flowers in racemes of 30-40 flowers, without bracts; mauve flowers, 10 mm wide, pedicellate 1-2 mm. Sepals 5-7 mm x 1.2 mm. Petals obovate 11-13 mm. Stamens 7-9, 10 mm long. Silique 10-17 mm long, erect and pressed against the stem, longitudinally veined with leathery valves; 4-6 seeds.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
Zliten-Misurata Plain: Misurata (El-Ghiran, Abd El-Rofe) 2008
Notes
Wild in Libya.
This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:283447-1
Link of images: https://botany.cz/cs/erucaria-hispanica/, https://www.floraofqatar.com/erucaria_hispanica.htm, https://www.gbif.org/species/5377678
For more information
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:283447-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/283447-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000677442, https://www.gbif.org/species/5377678, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/78123/erucaria-hispanica-l-druce, https://phrygana.eu/Flora/Brassicaceae/Erucaria-hispanica/Erucaria-hispanica.html, https://www.ksanature.com/plants/erucaria_hispanica/, https://botany.cz/cs/erucaria-hispanica/, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ERUHIS/
First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:
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Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:
Baayo, Kh. A. (2008): Floristic composition and Phytochorological Analysis of Misratah area, Libya, Assiut Univ.J. of Botany 37(2), P-P. 33-78 (2008)
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