Paronychia argentea Lam.
General Appearance
Paronychia argentea Lam., it is a perennial, prostrate to procumbent. rusty or purple reddish, basally woody, diffusely branched herb. Branches spreading 10 c. 40 cm, internodes mostly longer or ± equal to leaves. retrorsely hairy to glabrescent. Leaves sessile or minutely petioled, narrowly elliptic-oblanceolate or narrowy obovate, 4-10 (-15) x 2.5-5 (-6) mm, almost glabrous and scabrous, mucronate; stipules silvery scarious, 2 and interpetiolar or 4 free lateral at each node, broad ovate or narrowly oblique-ovate, 3.5-8 mm long, acute. Inflorescence dense, axillary and terminal, many-flowered well marked clusters, each c. 10-15 mm in diameter. Flowers whitish-green, 2-2.5 mm long, c. 4 mm across, sessile, perigynous zone with few straight hairs to almost glabrous; bracts oblinque-ovate, 4-8 mm long, acute, completely concealing the flowers, glabrous. Sepals oblong, up to 2.5 mm long, carinate and cucullate, semi-scarious, straight haired or glabrous externally, awned on hood, awn c. 0.5 mm long, straight and stiff, margins broadly membranous. Petals subulate, c. 0.5 mm long. Stamens filaments as long as petals, anthers c. 0.5 mm, yellow. Ovary ovoid, papillose towards the apex; style short, 2-fid, branches stigmatic. Utricle brown, membranous, much papillate, obovoid to ± globose, c. 1.5 mm long, enclosed by persistent sepals. Seed ovoid-round. c. 1 mm in diam., brownish-red, glabrous.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
Al-Jafarah Plain: Research station of Agriculture faculties 2017 Researches Station of Agriculture Faculty, University of Tripoli 2021
Zliten-Misurata Plain: Leptus Megna 2004 Kaam area 2005 Misurata 2006, 2008
Benghazi Plain: Wadi El-Ghattara 2010
Jabal Nafusa: Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013
Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: (22 km) S.W. Messa, Wadi El-Kauf, AI·Gubba 1967 Zawia, between Al-Merj and Taknes, (5 km) from Shahat to Baida, (20 km) from Labrag (35 km) from Lamluda, Messa, (5 km) from Baida, (15 km) from Gaigab to Martuba, Batta 1972 Tocra, Batta, c, (74 km) from Baida on way to AI-Merj, Sabag·AI· Gubha 1973 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Gebel Akhder 2007 S.of AL-Marj 2011 Al-Mansora 2013 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Wadi Derna 2017
Ghat area: Ghat (Esin region) 2004 Wadi Tanezzuft 2012
Notes
Wild in Libya, common in sandy and rocky places.
This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:434984-1
Link of images: https://atlas-sahara.org/Caryophyllaceae/Paronychia%20argentea/Paronychia%20argentea.html, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/paronychia-argentea, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=5684
For more information
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:434984-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/434984-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000466806, https://www.gbif.org/species/5528747, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/134029/paronychia-argentea-lam, https://atlas-sahara.org/Caryophyllaceae/Paronychia%20argentea/Paronychia%20argentea.html, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/paronychia-argentea, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=5684, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/PARARG/, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/caryophyllaceae/paronychia-argentea, https://botany.cz/cs/paronychia-argentea/, https://www.orchid-nord.com/Flore-Rhodes/Caryophyllaceae/Paronychia%20argentea/Paronychia%20argentea.html http://phcogj.com/article/1207, https://florapal.org/plant/paronychia-argentea/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paronychia_argentea
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Vegetation Survey of Protected Area of the University of Tripoli-Libya. 2021
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Plant Species at Wadi Alkuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya 2014
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Checklist and life forms of plant species in contrasting climatic zones of Libya. 2012
EL-Barasi, Y. M., Barrani, M. W., Abdelsalam, O. EL-Amrouni, N., Mohamad, F. (2011) Check list of flora and vegetation on south EL-Marj zone: south EL-Jabal EL-Akhadar. Libya. Annals of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara-International Journal of Engineering. Tome IX (Year 2011). Fascicule 3. ISSN 1584-2673, 141-146. http://annals.fih.upt.ro/pdf-full/2011/ANNALS-2011-3-24.pdf
FLORA AND VEGETATION ON SOUTH EL-MARJ ZONE SOUTH EL-JABAL EL-AKHADAR.2011
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Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. 2010
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Seed Bank of Arable Land and Natural Vegetation in El-Jabal El-Akhdar. 2007
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