Farsetia aegyptia Turra

Family: Brassicaceae
Flowering Time: Jan-May.

General Appearance

Farsetia aegyptia Turra, it is a shrubby, woody at the base, 26-50 cm tall, hoary with appressed hairs, much branched, with strict and short branches. Leaves linear, sessile, up to 50 x 3.5 mm, usually entire and obtuse. Racemes up to 10-flowered, lax. Flowers c. 2 cm across, flowers, dull violaceous, violaceous, dirty brick or brownish, pale brown or dirty-pink, light chocolate, dirty cream, dirty brownish-violaceous, dirty yellow. Pedicels 6-10 (-IS) mm long in fruit, slightly thickened, ascending. Sepals 8-12 mm long. hoary outside. Petals 15·20 mm long, linear oblong, often with crimped margins. Stamens 8-9: 10-11 mm; filaments linear; anthers 4-5 mm long, linear. Siliculae 10-20 (-25) x 6-10 mm, oblong to suborbicular, rounded at the ends, hoary on the valves; style c. 1.5 mm in fruit. stigma short, ± 2-lobcd with sub-decurrent lobes. Seeds 4-6 mm in diam. (including membranous, whitish wings).   

Life Form

N.Ph

Phytochoria

SS/ The native range of this species is Mauritania to Iraq and NW. India.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain:  Bir-Ayad 2013

Sirte Plains:  Sirte 2015, 2016

Jabal Nafusa:  Wazen. Libyan-Tunisian border 1974   Abogilan, Gharian, Abu Gariba, (75 km) from Derj to Nalut 1975  Between Shakshuk and Qasre Alhaj 1976

Marmarica Plateau:  Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930  Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002

Al-Qibla area:  Wadi Nesma region 2009  Wadis South of Mizda 2013

Ghadames area:  (184 km) S. of  Nalut, (5 km) from Ghadames, towards Berber Castle 1975

Al-Jufra area:  Gebel Soda, (50 km) from Hun to Bugrain 1972  (37 km) from Weshka, 1973  Weshka, (2,35,43 km) from Weshka, Grara Al-Tifarni 1975  Near Sokna, Wadi Weshka, Between Hun & Bugrain 1976

Fezzan area:  (16 km) from Sebha to Brak 1973

Ghat area:   Ghat (Between Acacus and Tassili Mountains) 2004  Wadi Tanezzuft 2012

Notes

Wild, desert species in sandy and stony ground, very variable in fruit size, and commonly associated with Oudneya ajricana and Zilla spinosa  in the deep desert areas of Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:284373-1

Link of images: https://atlas-sahara.org/Brassicaceae/Farsetia%20aegyptiaca/Farsetia%20aegyptiaca.html,    https://botany.cz/cs/farsetia-aegyptia/,      http://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Cruciferae/Farsetia_aegyptia.htm, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/faraeg/

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. 125.

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

Saaed, M.W.B., EL-Barasi, Y.M. & Rahil, R.O. (2021) An updated checklist and quantitative analysis of the Marmarica Plateau flora, in the north-eastern part of Libya. Phytotaxa 509 (1): 001-055. https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.509.1.1

An-updated-checklist-and-quantitative-analysis-of-the-Marmarica-Plateau-flora-مضغوط

Elsayed, N. (2016) Relationship between Vegetation and Soil Seed Bank at Protected Versus Unprotected Sites at Coastal Habitats in Libya.CATRINA (2016), 15 (1): 59-68. https://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?user=mSAskW0AAAAJ&hl=en , https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18337_76652686b5c99f5fd479aebab87fbcb4.pdf

Vegetation and Soil Seed Bank at Protected Versus Unprotected Sites at Coastal Habitats in Libya. 2016

Elsayed M. A. N. (2015) Floristic Composition of the Plant Cover at Surt Region in Libya. Catrina (2015), 12 (1): 63-71-2010 By the Egyptian society for environmental SCIENCES. https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18403_37c687e375b9144800a15704e68ebad7.pdf

Floristic Composition of the Plant Cover at Surt Region in Libya. 2015

Al-Dakhli, O., Qarmida, N., Al-Tawati, R., Al-Maqri, M. (2021) Survey of medicinal and aromatic plants in area and Al-Ghiran Agricultural Park in Janzour City-Libya. Libyan Journal of Ecological & Environmental Sciences and Technology. Vol.3 No. 2 Dec, 2021 Pages A-(44-47) .(In Arabic).

أثرالحماية في بعض خصائص الغطاء النباتي ضمن مراعي منطقة بئرعياد – ليبيا. 2013

Mohamed, F.J. (2013) A Taxonomic Study of Wadis Flora South of Mizda at the intersections with Mizda-Sebha Highway. Master Thesis. Department of Botany-Faculty of Science-Sebha University. Libya. (In Arabic).

Mukassabi, T.A, Ahmidat, G., Sherif, I.M., ELMogasapi, A. (2012) Checklist and life forms of plant species in contrasting climatic zones of Libya. Biological Diversity and Conservation – 5 / 3 (2012) https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/biodicon/issue/55888/765799,  https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259357995_Checklist_and_life_forms_of_plant_species_in_contrasting_climatic_zones_of_Libya

Checklist and life forms of plant species in contrasting climatic zones of Libya. 2012

Bahri, N.M. (2009) Study of the vegetation covers of Wadi Nesma region, northwest of Libya. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, College of Science, Sebha University, Libya. (In Arabic).

Ahmidat, Gh. (2004) Study of the vegetation cover of the area between the Acacus Mountains and the Tassili Mountains (Ghat). Master Thesis. Department of Botany.College of Science. Sebha University. Libya. (In Arabic).

El-Shaary M.S. (2002). The Natural Vegetation in Marmarica plateau (North-eastern Libya). First ed. Tobruk (Libya): Published by the local Authority. (In Arabic).

PAMPANINI, R. (1914). Piantae Tripolitanae, ab auctore anno 1913 […] – Firenze: 103 – under: Farsetia aegyptiaca var. ovalis (Boiss.) Coss.

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