Flora

Hyoseris radiata L.

Family: Asteraceae

Flowering Time: Mar-May.

General Appearance

Hyoseris radiata L.,̸ Heterotypic Synonyms: Hyoseris radiate ssp. gracea Halácsy, it is a perennial plant, with basal parts thickened and ± oblique and with a thick vertically descending root. Leaves 50-250 x 10-50 mm, erect or ascending, oblanceolate, often long petiolate, glabrous or mealy, often hispid on petiole and under mid-rib, pinnatifid; lobes ± ovate, sub entire or toothed, acutish, alternate or opposite, often irregularly overlaping. Scapes (6-) 10-36 (45) cm. erect, usually glabrous or sometime hispid, ± filiform and not swollen below the capitulum. Involucre 10-15 x 7-15 mm. Involueral bracts pale or dark, glabrous or mealy, spreading in fruiting. Outer involucral bracts 4-5 mm, ovate. Inner involueral bracts 12-14 mm, lanceolate, mid-rib thickened dorsally in fruiting. Cypsela 8-10 mm. brown, puberulent, the marginals compressed; the median ones compressed and winged; the inner ones terete; all with pappus of linear scales and rigid hairs.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is Canary Islands (Gran Canaria), Medit.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain: Misurata 2006, 2008

Benghazi Plain: Reported from Benghazi by Durand & Barratte

Jabal Nafusa: Reported from Gharian, Tarhuna by Durand & Barratte Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Reported from Shahat to Derna by Durand & Barratte

Marmarica Plateau: Reported from Tobruk by Durand & Barratte . From Tobruk to Egyptian Border 1999

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_hyoserisrad.php, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=4106, https://www.maltawildplants.com/ASTR/Hyoseris_radiata.php

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:225385-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/225385-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000134175, https://www.gbif.org/species/3134555, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/137925/hyoseris-radiata-l, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_hyoserisrad.php, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=4106, https://www.maltawildplants.com/ASTR/Hyoseris_radiata.php, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_hyoserisrad.php, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/hyoseris-radiata, https://botany.cz/cs/hyoseris-radiata/

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

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).

Baayo, Kh. A. (2008): Floristic composition and Phytochorological Analysis of Misratah area, Libya, Assiut Univ.J. of Botany 37(2), P-P. 33-78 (2008).

Al-Dana, S. M. M. (2006) Taxonomic study of wild flower plants in some areas of Misrata. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Misurata University (7 October previously) Misurata, Libya. (In Arabic).

EL-Habony, A.M. (1999) Vegetation and flora of a sector along Mediterranean cost of Libya from Tobruk to Egyptian border, M.Sc. Thesis, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (in Arabic).