General Appearance
Cachrys sicula L., it is a perennial herb, 30-150 cm tall. erect, slightly scabrid, glaucescenl; stem solid, striate; branches opposite or whorled. Leaves 2-3-pinnates, broadly rhombic or triangular-ovate in outline; ultimate segments linear, often flaccid. 15-50 x 1-1.5 mm, mucronate, scabrid on the margins. Rays 20-30; bracts of central umbel (1-) 2 pinnatifid; bracteoles subulate, entire. Fruits 10-15 mm long; ridges prominent, wide and rounded, ± cristate-dentate.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
Zliten-Misurata Plain:
Reported from Misurata by Pampanini & Keith
Jabal Nafusa:
Reported from Tarhuna by Pampanini & Keith
Notes
Wild in Libya.
Link of images: https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_cachryssicula.php, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=1422, https://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Umbelliferae/Cachrys_sicula.htm, https://flora-on.pt/?q=Cachrys+sicula, https://www.apatita.com/herbario/especie.php?id=Cachrys_sicula, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/cachrys-sicula
For more information
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:839577-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/839577-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000577591, https://www.gbif.org/species/3634425, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/154454/cachrys-sicula-l, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_cachryssicula.php, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=1422, https://flora-on.pt/?q=Cachrys+sicula, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/apiaceae/cachrys-sicula, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/cachrys-sicula, https://www.apatita.com/herbario/especie.php?id=Cachrys_sicula, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachrys_sicula
First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:
Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Anacardiaceae Vol. (52) 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: 165 – under: Hippomarathrum siculum (L.) Hoffmanns. & Link
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