Flora

Filago mareotica Delile

Family: Asteraceae

Flowering Time: Mar-Apr.

General Appearance

Filago mareotica Delile , it is an annual herb, very similar to Filago ramosissima Lange, but capitula always solitary. axillary forming a ± unilateral spike.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is SE. Spain, N. Africa, E. Cyprus.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Al-Kararim 1968

Benghazi Plain:

Benghazi 1939 (5 miles) S. Ajdabia to Jalo, 1939

Jabal Nafusa:

Tarhuna (Terghlat) 2018

Marmarica Plateau:

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

Notes

Wild in Libya, a species occurring in saline soils.

Link of images: https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/filago-mareotica, https://www.almerinatura.com/joyas/filago-mareotica.html, http://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Compositae/Filago_mareotica.htm

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:207914-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/207914-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000034397, https://www.gbif.org/species/3115813, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/137589/filago-mareotica-delile, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/filago-mareotica, https://www.almerinatura.com/joyas/filago-mareotica.html, http://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Compositae/Filago_mareotica.htm

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

Beit Al-Mal, A. G. & El-Hadar, I. A. (2018) An analytical study of vegetation (Case Study: Targhalat, Tarhouna Municipality, Libya.Special issue of the second annual conference on theories and applications Basic and Biological Sciences. 1 September 2018.

دراسة تحليلية للغطاء النباتي (حالة دراسية – ترغلات – بلدية ترهةنة-ليبيا) 2018

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