Flora

Echium italicum L.

Family: Boraginaceae

Flowering Time: Apr-May,

General Appearance

Echium italicum L., it is a tall, biennial hispid, herb up to 40- 100 (-125) cm tall, covered with long white setae, usually with a single flowering stem. Basal leaves petiolate, (100)-150-200 x 10-30 (-40) mm, lanceolate with appressed soft setae. Cauline leaves sessile, lanceolate or linear anceolate, 50-100 x 3-5 mm. Inflorescence richly, branched and pyramidal with yellow hairs. Bracts foliaceous, narrowly linear. Calyx 6-7 mm long, lobe-linear, divided almost up to the base. Corolla 10-12 (-16) mm long, narrowly infundibuliform, pale white, yellowish, or flesh coloured, hairy outside. Stamens 4-5 serted, filaments pale; anthers c. 1 mm long. Stigma distinctly bifid; style filiform, hairy almost half way from the base. Nutlets 4, tuberculate or rugose; keeled on one side, 3-4 x 1.52 mm.

Life Form

Phytochoria

ES+MED+IT. The native range of this species is E. Central & S. Europe to Afghanistan.

Distribution in Libya

Benghazi Plain: Qaminas area 2006 Wadi El Ghattara 2010

Jabal Nafusa: Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: (79 km) from Baida 1972

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=2794, https://www.maltawildplants.com/BORG/Echium_italicum.php

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:115713-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/115713-1 , https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000662857, https://www.gbif.org/species/2925889, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/132515/echium-italicum-l, https://www.maltawildplants.com/BORG/Echium_italicum.php, https://botany.cz/en/echium-italicum/, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=2794

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1979) Flora of Libya, Boraginaceae Vol. (68) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. Page. 35.

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

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).

El-Rabiai, G.T., Al tira, F.M., Lamlom, S.H. (2010) Preliminary Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. Garyounis University Press Journal of Science and Its Applications Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 39-47, December 2010. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Wz8jpkIAAAAJ&hl=ar, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ALTsoucAAAAJ&hl=en, https://journals.uob.edu.ly/index.php/sjuob/issue/view/71

Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. 2010

Al-Maghrabi A.S.S. (2006) Study of the vegetation and seed bank of the zone of Ghaminis and Agedabia (Slouk plain), Master of Science Thesis, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Academy of Graduated Studies, Benghazi Branch, Libya, 2006. (In Arabic).