Flora

Crepis vesicaria L.

Family: Asteraceae

Flowering Time: Mar-May.

General Appearance

Crepis vesicaria L. // Infraspecific: Crepis vesicaria ssp. stellata (Ball) Babc., Crepis vesicaria ssp. taraxacifolia (Thuill.) Thell., Crepis vesicaria ssp. vesicaria, it is a coarse, growing,caulescent, (3-) 35-70 (-150) cm, usually branched perennial, glabrous or tomentose to shortly villous plants; hairs long glandular or eglandular, not dark tipped. Basal leaves (20-) 100-170 (-350) x (8-)20-40 (-80) mm, oblanceolate or obovate or sometimes ± spathulate, obtuse or acute, ± entire with retrorsely denticulate-sinuate margins or runcinate-pinnatifid, pinnatisect or 2-pinnatifid, often lyrate cleft; lobes ± triangular, sparsely toothed. Lower cauline leaves like basal leaves, sessile, auriculate-amplexicaule. Upper cauline leaves usually reduced, bract-like. Capitula many in a lax, spreading or erect corymb, 60-140 flowered. Peduncles 8-60 mm long, subtended by conspicuous, scarious bracts. Receptacle ciliate. Involucre 5-14 mm, ± tomentose with glandular and eglandular hairs. Outer involucral bracts (1/6-) 1̸4.-1̸3 (-3̸4) as long as inner, broadly ovate to linear lanceolate, imbricate or not. Inner involucral bracts 12-14, sometimes indurated and keeled at maturity; minutely hairy on the inner surface. Ligules yellow, 7-9 mm. Style branches usually green or dark green. Cypsela homo or dimorphic, 4-8.5 (-9) mm long, brown or yellowish, fusiform, c. 10-ribbed; the inner ones always beaked, Pappus white, ± included or partly exserted from the involucre. A variable species and in Libya 3 sub species can be recognized

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is Medit.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Misurata 2006

Jabal Nafusa:

(22 km) W. of Khoms Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Msallata (Shaafien) 2017 Tarhuna (Dawoon, Sok El-Ahed) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:

Messa, (5 km) from Al-Baida, Al-Ghaigab 1972 Al-Bakur,Tocra, Wadi Derna 1978 Valley Jarjr-oma 2013 Sidi Abu-Ras 2016 Wadi Derna 2017

Marmarica Plateau:

Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://dryades.units.it/torlonia/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&id=6373&num=2787, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/crepis/vesicaria/

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:200365-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/200365-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000043912, https://www.gbif.org/species/5403709, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/137290/crepis-vesicaria-l, https://dryades.units.it/torlonia/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&id=6373&num=2787, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/crepis/vesicaria/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepis_vesicaria

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:

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

Mahklouf, M.H., Sherif, A.S., Betelmal, A.G. (2020) Floristic Study and Species Diversity of Msallata-Garaboulli Province in Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology Volume 7 / Issue 3 ISSN: 2348-7313. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341306643_Floristic_Study_and_Species_Diverisy_of_Msallata-Garaboulli_Province_in_Libya

Mahklouf, M.H. Sherif, A.S, Betelmal, A. G. (2018) Floristic Study for Tarhuna-Libya. Hacettepe J. Biol. & Chem, 2018, 46 (3), 337-364. https://hjbc.hacettepe.edu.tr/journal/volume-46/issue-3/floristic-study-for-tarhuna-libya/index.html, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf

Floristic Study for Tarhuna–Libya. 2018

Ab-Aziza, F.B., El–Barasi, Y.M. and Rahil, R.O. (2017) Flora, Vegetation and Human Activities of Wadi Derna-El-Jabal. Research article I Botany l Version 1. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fatma-Abuaziza, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebeh-Rahil

Flora, Vegetation and Human Activities of Wadi Derna. 2017

Bahri, N.M. (2017) Identify, Limit and Determine the Vegetation Types of Wadi Ka’am Areas, Libya. Journal of Marine Sciences and Environmental Technologies-Volume (3) -Issue (2) (In Arabic) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371282756_altrf_ly_alanwa_alnbatyt_lmnatq_wady_kam_whsrha_wthdyd_ashkal_nmwha

التعرف على الانواع النباتية لمناطق وادي كعام وحصرها وتحديد أشكال نموها. 2017 .

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دراسة الغطاء النباتي بمنطقة سيدي بوراس –الجبل الاخضر 2017

Abusaief, H. M. A. (2013) Life forms and rangeland for many habitats of Jarjar oma in Al-Jabal Al- Akhdar on Mediterranean Sea. Journal of American Science 2013;9(5) http://www.jofamericanscience.org/journals/am-sci/am0905/029_17747am0905_236_249.pdf

Al-Masalati, N. A. A. (2013) Plant diversity across the altitudes of the Msallata National Park Reserve Mountains. Master Thesis. Botany Department-College of Science-University of Benghazi-Libya. (In Arabic).

Al-Dana, S. M. M. (2006) Taxonomic study of wild flower plants in some areas of Misrata. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Misurata University (7 October previously) Misurata, Libya. (In Arabic).