Flora

Silene tridentata Desf.

Family: Caryophyllaceae

Flowering Time: Mar-Apr.

General Appearance

Silene tridentata Desf., it is a small annual herb, up to 35 cm, with erect, simple or branched stems. Leaves sessile. narrowly lanceolate-oblanceolate, 15-30 x 3-8 mm, densely antrorse pubescent, lower ones attenuate, ± petiolate, upper connate-vaginate and ciliate at the base, acute. Flowers pink, 6-8 mm across, in lax scorpioid raceme-like monochasia; pediccls absent or minute; bracts leafy, linear, c. half as long as leaves. Calyx with 10 prominent, villous nerves, strongly constricted below the teeth in fruit. Corolla with pink petals and a bifid limb. Stamens 10, filaments glabrous; anthers oblong, c. 1 mm long, purplish. Ovary oblong-cylindrical, stipe c. 1 mm long, hairy; styles included. Capsule ovoid, sub globose. Seeds brown, wingless, reniform in outline, with strongly concave lateral faces and a broad, shallowly grooved back. Cells of the lateral faces papillose. Attachment zone with filiform elements.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is Canary Islands, Spain to S. & E. Medit.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain: Research station of Agriculture faculties 2017

Benghazi Plain: Wadi El-Ghattara 2010

Jabal Nafusa: Ain Al-Rumia, unknown collector ?? Misallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Al-Ghraib 1978

Notes

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:158553-1

Link of images: https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_silenetridentata.php, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/silene-tridentata, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/SILTRD/, https://www.atlasdesemillasdecanarias.org/atlas/ficha.php?ID=3

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:158553-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/158553-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000440101, https://www.gbif.org/species/5587890, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/134607/silene-tridentata-desf, https://www.atlasdesemillasdecanarias.org/atlas/ficha.php?ID=3, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_silenetridentata.php, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/SILTRD/, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/silene-tridentata, https://www.floravascular.com/index.php?spp=Silene%20tridentata

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. 66.

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

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

Nasif, M. A., Al-Ganoni, A. M., Knotch, O. M., Nafees. A. A. (2017) Survey of weeds in the research station of the Faculty of Agriculture-University of Tripoli. Libyan Journal of Agricultural Sciences, No. (1) Vol (22) p. (35-46). (In Arabic).

مسح الحشائش في محطة ابحاث كلية الزراعة – جامعة طرابلس. 2017

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

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).