Flora

Barnardia numidica (Poir.) Speta

Family: Asparagaceae

General Appearance

Barnardia numidica (Poir.) Speta / Homotypic Synonyms: Scilla numidica Poir., it is a bulbous geophyte ovoid, c. 4 cm long covered with membranous brown tunics. Leaves basal, 4-6 per rosette, linear, c. 25 x 004-1.5 cm, lip ± acuminate; scape 10-45 cm long, 30-60-ftowered; pedicels c. 8 mm long, bractcolilte; bracts membranous, linear 3-12 mm long, whitish in colour. Flowers small; tepals free, c. 3 mm long, oblong-lanceolate; with dark nerve; stamens equal, ± as long as perianth; filaments linear-lanceolate; anthers midifixed; ovary with three distinct lobes, depressed at top; style exserted; capsule 3-lobed, with 3 black ellipsoid seeds.

Life Form

Phytochoria

SA. The native range of this species is Baleares (Formentera), N. Africa.

Distribution in Libya

Jabal Nafusa:

Reported from Gharian by Maire

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Barnardia_numidica

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:943324-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/943324-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000761285, https://www.gbif.org/species/5304767, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/160217/barnardia-numidica-poir-speta, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Barnardia_numidica, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnardia_numidica

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Liliaceae Vol. (57) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

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

PAMPANINI, R. (1914). Piantae Tripolitanae, ab auctore anno 1913 lectae et repertorium florae vascularis Tripolitaniae – Firenze: 56 — under: Scilla numidica Poir.