Flora

Filago pyramidata L., it is an annual herb, greyish-white. Stems (2-) 5-30 cm, rigid, erect to procumbent, branched; hairs shaggy adpressed. Leaves (6-) 10-15 x 2 mm, oblong-obovate to ± spathulate, apiculate; those subtending the cluster of capitula (3-) 4-6, ± equal or slightly exceeding the cluster. Capitula (4-) 5-12 (-20) in an axillary cluster, 5-6 x 2.5-3 mm, cylindric-pyramidal, sharply 5-angled. Involucral bracts ± (5-) 6-rowed. Involucral bracts of 1st. row 5 x 1.25 mm (including arista 2 mm), obovate-lanceolate, strongly convex at the back, with dense hairs, with a dark brown spot near the apex below the arista. Involucral bracts of the 2nd & 3rd rows similar but slightly broader and hairy on the margin and at the back. Involucral bracts of the 4th. row shorter and broader, 4.25 x 1.5 mm, ovate, sharply, acuminate, keeled and strongly convex at the back, in the upper half pubescent on the back and with a dark brown spot below the acumin, margins papery. Involucral bracts of the 5th row similar but shorter than the last, 4 x 1.25 mm. Involucral bracts of the 6th row shortest and broadest 3.5 x 2 mm, oblongish-ovate, acute-apiculate, shallowly convex at the back, margins broad, membranous, glabrous. Female florets corolla 2 mm, filiform, epappose. Inner female florets (from the apex of the raceptacle) absent (or 5-7). Hermaphrodite florets 6 (-7), corolla 2.25 mm, 4-toothed; tube narrow, ± uniform; pappus setae 8-10, connate at the base, scabrid, as long as the corolla. Cypsela 0.5-0.8 mm, cylindrical to oblong-ovoid.

Al-Jafarah Plain: Reported from Tripoli, by Keith  Sabratha region 2020   Researches Station of Agriculture Faculty, University of Tripoli 2021

Zliten-Misurata Plain: Reported from Misurata by Keith

Sirte Plains: Sirte 2015

Benghazi Plain: Reported from Benghazi by Keith

Jabal Nafusa: Reported from Kussbat, Tarhuna by Keith   Misallata (Shaafeen) 2008  Tarhuna (Sharshara) 2018  Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:  Reported from Shahat, Al-Baida, Bomba by Keith  Wadi Derna 1968

Marmarica Plateau: Reported from Tobruk by Keith  Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/asteraceae/filago-pyramidata,  https://www.maltawildplants.com/ASTR/Filago_pyramidata.php,  https://www.i-flora.com/en/fact-sheets/search-for-species/art/show/filago-pyramidata.html

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:207952-1,   https://www.ipni.org/n/207952-1,     http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000035570,  https://www.gbif.org/species/3115755,   https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/137612/filago-pyramidata-l,   https://flora.org.il/en/plants/FILPYR/,     https://www.maltawildplants.com/ASTR/Filago_pyramidata.php,    https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=3256,   https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/asteraceae/filago-pyramidata,   https://www.i-flora.com/en/fact-sheets/search-for-species/art/show/filago-pyramidata.html