General Appearance
Flaveria bidentis (L.) Kuntze , it is a glabrescent annual, up to 20-60 (80) cm, with much branched stems. Leaves laceolate-elliptic, 3.5 -10 cm long and 0.6-1.8 wide, sparsely serrate to dentate to sub entire, petiolae or almost sessile. Capitula are small in congested scorpioid terminal glomerules, and irregulary rayed. Involucre about 0.5 long and 1 mm wide, almost cylindrical; phyllaries 2-serrate, obtuse. Ray florets are 2-3 with pale yellow corolla. Disc florets 3-8 mm long and 3-3.5 mm wide. Achenes of ray florets 2.5 mm, cylindrical, black. Achenes of disc florets 2 mm long and 0.5 mm wide, ellpsoid, black.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
Fezzan area: Murzuq farms, Murzuq 2015
Notes
Introduced in Libya.
Link of images: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:105042-2
For more information
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:105042-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/105042-2, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000038238, https://www.gbif.org/species/3086861, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/97482/flaveria-bidentis-l-kuntze, https://africanplants.senckenberg.de/search/quick?full_text=Flaveria+bidentis+%28L.%29+Kuntze#searchResults, http://www.kyffhauser.co.za/Plants1/Flaveria_bidentis/Index.htm, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242428447, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaveria_bidentis
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:
Erteeb, F.B & Sharashi, O. (2015) New Records for the Flora of Libya. The Libyan Journal of Science (An International Journal): Volume 18, 2014/2015. https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/article/view/102, https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/issue/view/24
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