Flora

Gymnarrhena micrantha Desf.

Common Name: Khirchef.

Family: Asteraceae

Flowering Time: Mar-Apr.

General Appearance

Gymnarrhena micrantha Desf., it is a dwarf herbaceous annual clinging to the surface of the ground, it is circular, the leaf is oblong-lanceolate, long (10 cm) and wide (1 cm), with a completely serrated edge, and the upper row of leaves is smaller in size. The flower heads are discoidal and clustered in the center of the plant, surrounded by leaves. The fruit is poor and small.

Life Form

Phytochoria

SA+IT. The native range of this species is N. Africa to Central Asia and Pakistan, Arabian Peninsula.

Distribution in Libya

Sirte Plains: Wadi el Faragh and el Haseiat 1934 Sirte area, in desert (62 km) W. of Al-Buiyrat 1939

Jabal Nafusa: Tiji, (68 km) from Tiji 1975

Marmarica Plateau: Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.floraofqatar.com/gymnarrhena_micrantha.htm, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/17821.html, https://atlas-sahara.org/Asteraceae/Gymnarrhena%20micrantha/Gymnarrhena%20micrantha.html?cat=Asteraceae

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:210912-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/210912-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000009338, https://www.gbif.org/species/3103902, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/137728/gymnarrhena-micrantha-desf, https://botany.cz/cs/gymnarrhena-micrantha/, https://www.floraofqatar.com/gymnarrhena_micrantha.htm, https://www.ksanature.com/plants/gymnarrhena_micrantha/, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/17821.html, https://www.mdpi.com/2037-0164/14/2/32, https://atlas-sahara.org/Asteraceae/Gymnarrhena%20micrantha/Gymnarrhena%20micrantha.html?cat=Asteraceae

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

El-Shaary M.S. (2002) The Natural Vegetation in Marmarica plateau (North-eastern Libya). First ed. Tobruk (Libya): Published by the local Authority. (In Arabic).