Flora

Notoceras bicorne (Aiton) Amo.

Family: Brassicaceae

Flowering Time: Mar-May

General Appearance

Notoceras bicorne (Aiton) Amo , it is an annual, spreading or ascending herb, up to 10-25 cm long, branched mostly from the base, hoary. Leaves 10-50 x 2-10 mm. Racemes 15-30-flowered, lax and elongating in fruit. Flowers c. 2 mm across, pale yellowish or dull white. Pedicels 1.5-2 mm long, thickened, erect, appressed. Sepals 1.5-2 nun long. Petals about as long or slightly longer than the sepals, narrowly spathulute. Stamens 1.2-1.5: 1.5-2 mm long. Siliquae 4-8 x 1.5-2 mm, appressedly hairy, rigid. with 2 apical horns, c. 1 mm long; style very small, persistent, with sub retuse and sub conical small stigma. Seeds 2-5 in each locule, ovoid, c. 1 mm long.

Life Form

Phytochoria

SS. The native range of this species is Canary Islands, Mauritania, SE. Spain, N. Africa to W. Himalaya and Arabian Peninsula.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain: Kaam area 2005

Jabal Nafusa: Gebel Nefousa 1970 Foot of Gharian hills 1975 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Notes

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:287811-1

Link of images: https://atlas-sahara.org/Brassicaceae/Notoceras%20bicorne/Notoceras%20bicorne.html, http://www.orchid-nord.com/Flore-Canarie/Brassicaceae/Notoceras%20bicorne/Notoceras-bicorne.html, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/NOTBIC/, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/notoceras-bicorne

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:287811-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/287811-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000380398, https://www.gbif.org/species/5374288, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/78161/notoceras-bicorne-aiton-amo, https://atlas-sahara.org/Brassicaceae/Notoceras%20bicorne/Notoceras%20bicorne.html, https://www.ksanature.com/plants/notoceras_bicorne/, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/notoceras-bicorne, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/NOTBIC/, http://www.orchid-nord.com/Flore-Canarie/Brassicaceae/Notoceras%20bicorne/Notoceras-bicorne.html, https://hoseito.com/producto/notoceras-bicorne-aiton-amo/, https://botany.cz/cs/notoceras-bicorne/

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. 144.

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

El-Ahmir, S.M., Mahklouf, M.H., Shanta, M.B., Abo-Jaafer, H.A. (2020) Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District-Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology. Volume 8 / Issue 1. ISSN: 2348-7313. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sh-Hoob-El-Ahmir, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf

Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District – Libya. 2020

Al-Shif, N. S. (2005) a taxonomic study of the plants of the Kaam region. Master Thesis, College of Science, Al-Marqab University, Al-Khums, Libya. (In Arabic).

PAMPANINI, R. (1914). Piantae Tripolitanae, ab auctore anno 1913 […] – Firenze: 109 – under: Notoceras canariense R.Br.