Anacyclus clavatus (Desf.) Pers.

Common Name: Tegrefta.
Family: Asteraceae
Flowering Time: May-Jun.

General Appearance

Anacyclus clavatus (Desf.) Pers., it is an annual herb pubescent to villous   up to 50 cm tall, divaricately branched. Branches terminal in to 1 (-2) short peduncles. Leaves oblong or oblanceolate in outline, pinnatisect; lobes entire or pinnatifid to pinnatisect: segments linear, mucronate. Basal leaves petiolate, ± rosetted. Cauline leaves sessile, sub auriculate; auricles pinnatilobed. Capitula 10-15 mm in diam. (excl., ray florets); rays white. disc yellow.Peduncles 1.5-4 cm long, becoming clavate after anthcsis. Involucre bracts 5-6.5 x 1.25-1.5 mm, lanceolate 10 ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, scriceous-villous, with a narrow, hyaline or purplish scarious margins. Palea 5-5.5 x 2·3 mm, oblong obovate to obovate-cuneate, mucronate, weakly incurved and somewhat coriaceous in fruiting, margins near the apex hairy and somewhat lacerate. ligule 5.5-14 mm, white, oblanceolate, reflexed, sometimes absent; basal tube 2 mm long. Disc corolla 3.5-5 mm (includ. the lobes), tubular, tube in the lower pan dorsoventrally compressed, 2, winged just above the ovary, in the upper half gradually widening, 5-lobed; 2 adaxial lobes each with an erect. narrow, dorsal appendages up to 1.5 mm. Cypsela 2.5-3.5 (-4) mm, dorsoventrally compressed; ray cypsela c. 3 mm broad (includ. c.1 mm- wide, scarious wings), epappose, with persistent basal tube of the corolla; peripheral disc cypselas similar, coronate, corona only adaxial, lacerate, up to 0.75 mm, scarious membrane; inner or central cypsela narrowly winged or not, up to 1.75 mm broad.

Life Form

Th

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is Canary Islands (Lanzarote), Europe to Medit.

Distribution in Libya

Benghazi Plain:

Wadi El-Ghattara 2010

Jabal Nafusa:

Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013  Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020   Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020  Wadi Kaam (Main course, Headwaters) 2022

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:

Al-Baida, (87,55 km) from Al-Baida to El-Merj 1972   Wadi Zaza 2003  Wadi El-Kouf 2014 S idi Abu-Ras 2017  From Zawiet Tamula to Al-Manarh 2019

Marmarica Plateau:

From Tobruk to Egyptian Border 1999

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1983) Flora of Libya, Asteraceae Vol. (107) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

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

Almushghub, F., Ahmed, D., Sharaf El-Din, A., Shaltout, k. (2022) Vegetation analysis of Wadi Kaam at northwest Libya. Journal of Basic and Environmental Sciences, 9 (2022) 20-37. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357516127_Vegetation_analysis_of_Wadi_Kaam_at_northwest_Libya, https://jbes.journals.ekb.eg/article_372060_558ee8095e2cf97881a8a3cc705aa126.pdf

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

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://zenodo.org/records/3931997, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sh-Hoob-El-Ahmir, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf

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

Ali, A. M., Lashhab, S. R., Abu-Aweena, A. A.M. (2019) Classification of vegetation cover and its geographical distribution in the area extending between Al-Haniya and Wadi Zagzoog in the north to Lasastata and Bishtaya in the south. Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar eastern Libya. Issue (61) Journal of Science and Human Studies- Al-Marj-University of Benghazi-Libya (In Arabic) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/sd-lshhb

El-Zerbi, A. K. & Al-Aib, M.A. (2017) Study of vegetation cover in Sidi Bouras region, Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering JESE, VOL. 1, No. 1, January 2017. (In Arabic) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abdulhamid-Alzerbi, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326461390_aalkhdr_baljbl_bwras_sydy_bmntqt_alnbaty_alghta_drast-lybya

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

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

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

EL-Habony, A.M. (1999) Vegetation and flora of a sector along Mediterranean cost of Libya from Tobruk to Egyptian border, M.Sc. Thesis, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (in Arabic).

PAMPANINI, R. (1931). Prodromo della Flora Cirenaica. – : 442 – under: Anacyclus clavatus var. tomentosus (DC.) Fiori & Paol.  https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/records/item/14218-prodromo-della-flora-cirenaica

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