Cuscuta planiflora Ten.

General Appearance

Cuscuta planiflora Ten., it is a holoparasitic annual, a non-green leafless of the character of herbaceous creeper plant. stems are winding, thin, about 0.3 mm in diameter, orange, yellowish or greenish. Inflorescences are dense balls usually of 6 flowers; flowers are small, mostly 5-merous, about 3 mm long; the calyx is bell-shaped, with fleshy, bluntly pointed tips; the crown is bell-shaped, with a tube as long as the calyx, the crown lobes tend to be pointed; stamens are 5, shorter than the corolla. Capsules depressed-globose. enveloped by the corolla; seeds less than 1 mm long, ovate, granulate.

Life Form

Pa

Phytochoria

MED+IT+SZ. The native range of this species is Macaronesia, Medit. to NW. India, Eritrea to S. Africa, Madagascar.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain: Sabrata 2008 Researches Station of Agriculture Faculty, University of Tripoli 2021

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Leptus Megna 2004 Kaam area 2005

Benghazi Plain: Beach sand dunes in Karkurah 2023

Jabal Nafusa: Tarhuna, Abiar Melgah a sul Ras Ter by Pampanini Gebel Nafousa, Ras El-Masen 1971 Wadi Malah, (10 km) from Nalut 1972 Ain Rumia, Tagma, (5 km) from Yefren 1974 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Tarhuna (Hejaz) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Al-Kouf 2021 Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2021

Marmarica Plateau: Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002

Al-Qibla area: Wadi Nesma region 2009

Notes

Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:267605-1

Link of images: https://atlas-sahara.org/Convolvulaceae/Cuscuta%20planiflora/Cuscuta%20planiflora.html, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/12233.html

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:267605-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/267605-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001297572, https://www.gbif.org/species/2927522, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/140005/cuscuta-planiflora-ten, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/12233.html, https://atlas-sahara.org/Convolvulaceae/Cuscuta%20planiflora/Cuscuta%20planiflora.html, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/convolvulaceae/cuscuta-planiflora, https://www.ksanature.com/plants/cuscuta_planiflora/ https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/cuscuta-planiflora, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/cuspla/, https://jb.utad.pt/especie/Cuscuta_planiflora https://dryades.units.it/Roma/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&id=4207&num=6840

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Cuscutaceae Vol. (53) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. Page. 5.

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

Alteerah, M.A., El-Barasi, Y.M., Ali Alwerfally, A. (2023) Vegetation cover composition and seed bank study of beach sand dunes in Karkurah coastal area, east of Libya. Sustainability, Agri, Food and Environmental Research, (ISSN: 0719-3726), 11(X), 2023. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Munay-Alteerah

Vegetation cover composition and seed bank study of beach sand dunes in Karkurah coastal area. 2023

Al-Sghair, F.G. and Mahklouf, M.H. (2021) Vegetation Survey for Vascular Plants of Protected Area of the University of Tripoli-Libya. Species. Vol.22 (69), 2021. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n69/index.htm, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n69/A1.pdf

Vegetation Survey of Protected Area of the University of Tripoli-Libya. 2021

Al-Traboulsi, M. & Alaib, M.A. (2021) A Survey of medicinal plants of Wadi Al-Kouf in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. NAT. CROAT, VOL. 30. No 2. (389-404), ZAGREB. December 31, 2021. https://hrcak.srce.hr/269442, https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/390805

Medicinal plants of Wadi Al-Kouf in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. 2021

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حصر أولي للنباتات الطفيلية المتطفلة على النباتات البرية بمنطقة الجبل الاخضر 2021

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

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Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District – Libya. 2020

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

Floristic Study and Species Diverisy of Msallata-Garaboulli Province. 2020

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Floristic Study for Tarhuna–Libya. 2018

El-Mokasabi, F M. (2014) Floristic Composition and Traditional Uses of Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 14 (8): 685-697, 2014, ISSN 1818-769,IDOSIPublications,2014DOI:10.5829/idosi.aejaes.2014.14.08.12375. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/441b/23b83960f007044aca94e26f5c6b170fe102.pdf

Plant Species at Wadi Alkuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya 2014

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