Cuscuta monogyna Vahl

General Appearance

Cuscuta monogyna Vahl it is a holoparasitic climber annual plant. Stems up to 4 mm in diameter, greenish or pinkish and often mottled, generally highly branched, smooth or tuberculated. Inflorescence in spiciform cymes, without pedicels. Flower up to 4.5 mm long, pentamerous. Calyx obconical or campanulate, approximately the same length or longer than the corolla tube, with sepals up to 2.7 mm, free or welded, smooth or tuberculated, whitish or greenish, with a tube of 0-0.3 mm ; lobes 1.8-2.4 × 1.9-2.7 mm, ovate, obtuse or subacute, with somewhat wavy margin, thickened on the back into a longitudinal carina usually tuberculate, widely imbricate. Corolla up to 4.1 mm, tubular or urceolate, gradually narrowing towards the base of the lobes where it forms a throat, with subpapillous, pink epidermal cells, with a tube up to 2.5 mm, longer than the lobes; lobes 1.3-1.6 × 1.2-1.5 mm, ovate or elliptical.

Life Form

Pa

Phytochoria

MED+ES+IT. The native range of this species is Europe to Siberia and Pakistan, NW. Africa.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Wadi Merqus 1991 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2021

Notes

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:267558-1

Link of images: https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/cuscuta-monogyna, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/12226.html

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:267558-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/267558-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001298472, https://www.gbif.org/species/7361176, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/8723/cuscuta-monogyna-vahl, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/12226.html, https://www.floravascular.com/index.php?spp=Cuscuta%20monogyna, https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.47506143, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/CUSMON/

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

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

El-Mokasabi, F. M., Askar, A. M., Hassan, S. A. Al-Darawi, M., Al-Bakoush, A. M. (2021) A preliminary survey of the parasitic plants on wild plants in the Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar region. A special issue of the Fifth Annual Conference on Theories and Applications of Basic and Life Sciences. (4) September 2021. Faculty f Science-University of Misurata. (In Arabic) https://www.misuratau.edu.ly/journal/sci/paperS.php?id=1642&ed_id=305

حصر أولي للنباتات الطفيلية المتطفلة على النباتات البرية بمنطقة الجبل الاخضر 2021

El-Mokasabi, F.M. (2017) Studies on the Flora of Libya. Cont ROL, Research article I Botany l Version 1.

Studies on the Flora of Libya. 2017

El-Mokasabi, F M. (2014) Floristic Composition and Traditional Uses of Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 14 (8): 685-697, 2014, ISSN 1818-769,IDOSIPublications,2014DOI:10.5829/idosi.aejaes.2014.14.08.12375. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/441b/23b83960f007044aca94e26f5c6b170fe102.pdf

Plant Species at Wadi Alkuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya 2014

El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H. (2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmed-Gawhari, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281559070_Checklist_and_analysis_of_the_flora_and_vegetation_of_Wadi_Zaza_at_AI-Jabal_AI_Akhdar_Cyrenaica_Libya

Flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at Al-Jabal AI Akhdar 2003-مضغوط

Al-Hamadi R.I. (1999) Floristic and ecological study of Wadi Al-Agar, Master Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic).