Flora

Carthamus nitidus Boiss.

Family: Asteraceae

Flowering Time: Apr-Jul.

General Appearance

Carthamus nitidus Boiss., it is a glabrous annual herbaceous plant with white, cylindrical stems, up to 50-70 cm. that branch at the top, reaching a height The basal leaves are long, broad-bladed, and serrated, while the upper leaves are slightly folded and divided into spiny lobes measuring 3.5 cm in length and 1 cm in width. Capitula solitary on terminal and side branches; involucre 2.6-4 cm long; outer phyllaries resembling the leaves; inner phyllaries ovate with triangular, pectinate-dentate appendage. Florets pink, ± 2 cm long, of which lobes 4-5 mm. Achenes obovoid, 4.5 mm long; pappus of violet flattened bristles 1-7 mm long, the outer and inner shortest.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED+SA. The native range of this species is E. Medit. to Arabian Peninsula Sudan, Somalia.

Distribution in Libya

Marmarica Plateau: Tubruk 1999 From Tobruk to Egyptian Border 1999

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:189513-1, https://www.ksanature.com/plants/carthamus_nitidus/ https://flora.org.il/en/plants/CARNIT/

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:189513-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/189513-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000033498, https://www.gbif.org/species/3138360, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/99883/carthamus-nitidus-boiss, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.flora.flos003643, https://www.ksanature.com/plants/carthamus_nitidus/, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/CARNIT/

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

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

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

An-updated-checklist-and-quantitative-analysis-of-the-Marmarica-Plateau-flora-مضغوط

El-Mokasabi, F.M. (2017) Studies on the Flora of Libya. Cont ROL, Research article I Botany l Version 1.

Studies on the Flora of Libya. 2017

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).