Flora

Dianthus serrulatus Desf., it is a perennial erect, up to 60 cm tall, glabrous, basally woody herb, with spreading flowering shoots. Leaves flat, linear-lanceolate, up to 8 cm x 3-7 mm, glabrous, connate at the base, attenuate-acute, ± serrulate. Flowers usually purplish, solitary, sometimes 2 or 3 at apices; bracteoles 4-10, ovate-lanceolate, 1̸3-1̸2 of calyx length, green with scarious margins, acuminate-acute. Calyx tubular, 20-35 mm, narrowed upwards, many nerved; teeth lanceolate, 7-11 mm long, 5-I0-nerved., margins whitish scarious, acute. Petal limb obovate-cuneate, 6-8 mm, long, fimbriate to less than half, ± barbulate at the throat, claw white, glabrous, filaments glabrous, anthers oblong-linear, 2.5-3 mm long. Ovary glabrous, on c. 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous stipe. Capsule cylindrical, shorter than and enclosed by calyx; carpophore shorter than capsule. Seeds rounded-ovate, 3-3.5 x 2.5 mm, black, peltate, finely papillate.

Jabal Nafusa:  Reported from Tarhuna by Maire and Keith

Wild in Libya. I have not found a recent record of this species in Libya so far.

This species is accepted:  https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:153873-1

Link of images: https://identify.plantnet.org/the-plant-list/species/Dianthus%20serrulatus%20Desf./data,    https://www.gbif.org/species/7540866

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:153873-1  https://www.ipni.org/n/153873-1,    https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000644240,  https://www.gbif.org/species/7540866,   https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/133742/dianthus-serrulatus-desf,    https://identify.plantnet.org/the-plant-list/species/Dianthus%20serrulatus%20Desf./data