Flora

Erucastrum varium (Durieu) Durand, it is an annual herb, glabrescent or pilose with simple ± retrorse or spreading hairs, simple to many branched, up to 1 m tall. Lower leaves petiolate, large, lyrate-pinnatipartite or pinnatisect, with 1-5 pairs of ovate-oblong lateral segments and a terminal larger, ovate, ± obtuse segment, lobulate or dentate, Upper leaves smaller, shortly petioled to sub sessile, 2-4-lobed to linear-lanceolate, dentate to entire. Flowers yellow. Pedicels filiform, short, hardly elongating in fruit spreading to ascending. Sepals 2-3.5 mm long, pilose to glabrous. Petals 4.5-6.5 mm long, obovate, clawed. Stamens c. 2.5:4 mm long; anthers c.1 mm. Siliquae linear tetragonal, torulose 10-25 x 1 mm with 1-7 mm long, linear-lanceolate. 0.2-seeded beak, glabrous to pilose; stigma depressed-capitate; valves membranous, strongly 1-ribbed; septum membranous, complete. Seeds many, 1-seriae, sub globose, c. 1 mm, brownish.   

Jabal Nafusa:  Reported from Tarhuna by Maire

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:283534-1

Link of images:  http://plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=235396&SID=0, https://www.gbif.org/species/5375521

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:283534-1,  https://www.ipni.org/n/283534-1,    https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000677560,    https://www.gbif.org/species/5375521,    https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/141508/erucastrum-varium-durieu-durieu,    https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.rab017894,    http://plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=235396&SID=0