Flora

Anthemis cyrenaica Coss.

Family: Asteraceae

Flowering Time: Mar-Jun.

IUCN Status:

CR – Critically Endangered

General Appearance

Anthemis cyrenaica Coss. / Syn. Anthemis cyrenaica var. cyrenaica, Anthemis cyrenaica var. radiata Pamp., it is an annual herb, small up to 7-12 (-20) cm, adpressed hairy villous, erect or ascending hairs woolly and biramus. Stems solitary to few, simple or branched above. Leaves 1-2 pinnatisect; lobes remote, linear acute-mucronate; base of the petiole with few lateral small lobes, but not dialated. Capitula 4-7 mm in diam, in discoid forms, up to 12 mm in radiale forms, homogamous or heterogamous, pedunculate. Peduncles 2-5 (-6) cm long (in radiate forms 2-4 cm), Striate, with 1-few rudimentary leafy appendages, slender but becoming thickened in fruiting below the capitulum. Receptacle strongly convex-sub globose. Involucre hemispherical; involucral bracts 4-5 rowed, imbricate, hirsute, hairy, broadly white scarious with mid-nerve ± herbaceous. Outer involucral bracts oblong-lanceolate, acute. Middle inyolueral bracts oblong, obtuse, margins fimbriate. Inner ones oblong-lanceolate. keeled above, margins hairy. Palea concavecarinate, ± oblong. outer peripheral ones ± truncate with mid-nerve prolonged into short cusp, with few scattered hairs near the apex; central ones somewhat tapered above, 2-3 toothed-erose near the apex. All florets tubular. hermaphrodite, yellow or marginal florets ligulate, female, white. Corolla of the peripheral tubular florets compressed, 2-winged. Cypsela cylindro-conical, pappose. sub 10-ribbed; ribs smooth; pappus articulate.

Life Form

Phytochoria

Endemic. The native range of this species is Libya.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Misurata 2008

Benghazi Plain:

Msus-Al-Ajramia zone 2004

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:

Wadi Derna 1968 Ras El-hilal, Taknes 1972 Wadi El-Mahbool, Susa 1973 Wadi Zaza 2003 Gebel Akhder 2009 S. AL-Marj 2011 El-Kouf 2014 Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2021

Al-Jufra area:

Zella 2008 Al-Jufra region 2020

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.gbif.org/species/3122636

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:177275-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/177275-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000089494, https://www.gbif.org/species/3122636, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/135760/anthemis-cyrenaica-coss, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.P00093456

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:

Mohamed, A.H., Mosallam, H.A., Sergwa, S.S., Gibreel, M.A. (2021) Impact of Edaphic Factors on Vegetation Composition in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. Egypt. J. Bot., Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 191-201 (2021) https://ejbo.journals.ekb.eg/article_119404.html

Khalifa, S.M. & Bader, B.M. (2020) Floristic analysis of the family Asteraceae in Al-Jufra region, Libya. Journal of Medicinal Plants Studies-2020- Vol. 8, Issue 6, Part A. https://www.plantsjournal.com/archives/?year=2020&vol=8&issue=6&part=A&ArticleId=1223, https://www.plantsjournal.com/archives/2020/vol8issue6/PartA/8-6-2-621.pdf

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

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

El-Darier, S.M. & El-Mogaspi, F.M. (2009) Ethno botany and Relative Importance of Some Endemic Plant Species at El-Jabal El-Akhdar Region (Libya). World Journal of Agricultural Sciences 5 (3): 353-360, 2009 ISSN 1817-3047, IDOSI Publications, 2009. http://www.idosi.org/wjas/wjas5(3)/16.pdf

Baayo, Kh. A. (2008) Floristic composition of Sahara Area in Libya. Catrina (2008), 3(3):37-53. https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18541_f0ebe9187acd58ae16701b93a9bf9cc2.pdf

Baayo, Kh. A. (2008): Floristic composition and Phytochorological Analysis of Misratah area, Libya, Assiut Univ.J. of Botany 37(2), P-P. 33-78 (2008).

El-Jetlawi A.O.(2004) Study of vegetation and soil seed bank of a range desert zone (Msus-Al-Ajramia), Master of Science Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Benghazi University, Benghazi, Libya (In Arabic).

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