Bunium pachypodum P.W. Ball

Family: Apiaceae
Flowering Time: May

General Appearance

Bunium pachypodum P.W. Ball / Syn. Bunium incrassatum (Boiss.) Batt, Perennial, glabrous herb, with tuberous rhizome, erect up to c. 60 em tall, branched with rigid stems. Radical leaves petiolate, 3-tematisect; cauline sessile, biternatisect or bipinnatiseet, ultimate-segments linear, mucronate, rays 8-12, elongated, rigid in fruit, divaricately ascending. Bracts 6-8, lanceolate-subulate, cuspidate, whitish at margin; pedicels thickened in fruit. Calys teeth minute, rigid: petals white, conspicuously emarginate with inflexed apices; stylopodium thickened with divergent-arcuate styles; fruit apices broad, not elongated. Mericarps linear- cylindrical to ellipsoid; carpophore rigid. with bifid apices.

Life Form

G

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is W. Medit.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jabal Al-Akhader:

Between Cyrene & Apollina 1939   Wadi Zaza 2003

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1985) Flora of Libya, Apiaceae Vol. (117) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

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

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

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