Flora

Silene colorata Poir.

Common Name: Om agrain.

Family: Caryophyllaceae

Flowering Time: Jan-Jun.

General Appearance

Silene colorata Poir., it is an annual, decumbent to erect, up to 50 cm tall, simple or diffusely branched, retrorsely apptessed pubescent, hispid or puberulent herb. Leaves sessile or lower petioled, ovate-spathulate or linear-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 3-10 x up to 1.5 cm, puberulent to almost glabrous, ciliate on margins, acute or obtuse. Flowers bright pink or sometimes whitish, c. 12-20 mm across, in a lax scorpioid monochasium; pedicels mostly shorter than calyx, retrorse hairy; bracts of a pair usually unequal, as long as or shorter than pedicels. Calyx tube cylindrical at anthesis, 10-14 (-18) mm long, slightly inflated, broadly clavate and not contracted at the apex in fruit, umbilicate, 10-ncrved, nerves red, purple or green, non-anastomosing, appressed puberulent on nerves alone; teeth ovate, 1.5-4.5 mm long, obtuse, densely ciliate. Petal limb obovate, 5-9 mm long, deeply bipartite into oblong-linear or narrowly oblanceolate-obovate lobes; claws usually long exerted, 12-20 mm long; coronal scales white, obovate to oblong-lanceolate, c. 2-3 mm long, obtuse or ± acute rarely retuse. Stamens 10, filiform, glabrous; anthers oblong, c. 1.5-1.75 mm long, yellow, exerted. Ovary oblong-cylindrical, stipitate, as long as or longer than the retrorse hairy stipe; styles exerted. Capsule ovoid, 8-10 mm long, usually included, rarely ± exerted; carpophore 4-8 mm long, usually included, rarely ± exerted; carpophore 4-8 mm long, retrorse hairy. Seeds rounded-reniform, 1-1.5 mm long, dark brown, faces plane and smooth to somewhat tuberculate, deeply grooved with 2 undulate or wavy wings.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is Canary Islands, Medit. to N. Iraq.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain: Tripoli 1967 Tajura 1972 (10 km) from Zuara to Ferua 1976 Tripoli 1976,1977 Sabrata 2008 El-Zawia 2015 Sabratha region 2020

Zliten-Misurata Plain: Kaam area 2005

Sirte Plains: (2 km) from Sirte 1977

Benghazi Plain: Wadi El-Ghattara 2010 Ajdabia (Al-Bedan) 2016

Jabal Nafusa: (5 km) after Asaba, Kaleba 1974 Rayana, (6 km) from Tarhuna 1972 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Tarhuna (Hejaz, Wlaad Hammad, Zurgan) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Al-Mansora 2013 Valley Jarjr-oma 2013

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

Al-Qibla area: (24 km) from Mizda to Al-Ghariat 1977

Notes

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:157108-1

Link of images: https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/silene-colorata, https://www.maltawildplants.com/CRYO/Silene_colorata.php https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=7252, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/SILCOL/, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_silenecolorata.php

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:157108-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/157108-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000438674, https://www.gbif.org/species/7566895, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/134326/silene-colorata-poir, https://www.maltawildplants.com/CRYO/Silene_colorata.php, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/silene-colorata https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=7252, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/SILCOL/, https://dryades.units.it/lamone/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&id=878&num=6768, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_silenecolorata.php, https://botany.cz/cs/silene-colorata/, https://flora-on.pt/?q=Silene+colorata

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Caryophyllaceae Vol. (59) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. Page. 73.

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

Al-khojah, H.M., Al-Yafour, L.A., Mahklouf, M.H. (2020) Floristic Study of Selected Districts in Sabratha region Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology Volume 7/Issue 4 ISSN: 2348-7313. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2s5EMysAAAAJ&hl=ar, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf

Floristic Study of Selected Districts in Sabratha region Libya. 2020.

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

Mahklouf, M.H., Sherif, A.S., Betelmal, A.G. (2020) Floristic Study and Species Diversity of Msallata-Garaboulli Province in Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology Volume 7 / Issue 3 ISSN: 2348-7313. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341306643_Floristic_Study_and_Species_Diverisy_of_Msallata-Garaboulli_Province_in_Libya

Floristic Study and Species Diverisy of Msallata-Garaboulli Province. 2020

Mahklouf, M.H. Sherif, A.S, Betelmal, A. G. (2018) Floristic Study for Tarhuna-Libya. Hacettepe J. Biol. & Chem, 2018, 46 (3), 337-364. http://www.hjbc.hacettepe.edu.tr/journal/volume-46/issue-3/floristic-study-for-tarhuna-libya/index.html

Floristic Study for Tarhuna–Libya. 2018

El-Zerbi, A. K., Al-Borki, A. S., Al-Aib, M.A. (2016) Study of vegetation in Protected Al-Bedan southeast of Ajdabiya, Libya. Journal of Marine Sciences and Environmental Technologies-No. (2) Volume (2) December 2016. ISSN: 2413-5267(In Arabic) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abdulhamid-Alzerbi, https://journals.asmarya.edu.ly/jmset/index.php/JMSET/article/view/103, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371283472_drast_alghta_alnbaty_bmhmyt_albydan_jnwb_shrq_ajdabya_lybya

دراسة الغطاء النباتي بمحمية البيضان جنوب شرق اجدابيا- ليبيا. 2016

Al-Fiqi, Abd al-Salam, M., Abul-Qasim, R. (2015) Inventory of the vegetation cover surrounding Al-Zawiya University. The Libyan Journal of Science Volume 18, 2014/2015 .(In Arabic) https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/issue/view/24

حصرالغطاء النباتى المحيط بجامعة الزاوية. 2015

Abusaief, H. M. A. (2013) Life forms and rangeland for many habitats of Jarjar oma in Al-Jabal Al- Akhdar on Mediterranean Sea. Journal of American Science 2013;9(5) http://www.jofamericanscience.org/journals/am-sci/am0905/029_17747am0905_236_249.pdf

Life forms and rangeland for many habitats of Jarjar oma in Al- Jabal Al- Akhdar. 2013

Abusaief, H. M. A. and Dakhil, A. H. (2013) The floristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar- Libya. New York Science Journal 2013; 6(5). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Huda-Abusaief

Foristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al- Jabal Al- Akhdar 2013

Al-Masalati, N. A. A. (2013) Plant diversity across the altitudes of the Msallata National Park Reserve Mountains. Master Thesis. Botany Department-College of Science-University of Benghazi-Libya. (In Arabic).

El-Rabiai, G.T., Al tira, F.M., Lamlom, S.H. (2010) Preliminary Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. Garyounis University Press Journal of Science and Its Applications Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 39-47, December 2010. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Wz8jpkIAAAAJ&hl=ar, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ALTsoucAAAAJ&hl=en, https://journals.uob.edu.ly/index.php/sjuob/issue/view/71

Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. 2010

El-Yafour, L. A. (2008) Taxonomic study of the vegetation properties of Sabratha city Master Thesis. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Al-Zawiya University, Libya. (In Arabic).

Mohammed, S.A.H. (2008) A taxonomic and ecological study of the plants of the Shaafin Reserve in Masalatah. Master Thesis. Department of Biology-Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Al-Mirqab University. Al-Khums. Libya. (In Arabic).

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).