Flora

Lactuca saligna L.

Family: Asteraceae

Flowering Time: Jun-Oct.

General Appearance

Lactuca saligna L., it is an annual or biennial herb. Stem 30-100 cm, glabrous, erect, whitish, branched. Leaves often muricate on the midrib; lower undivided to pinnatifid with narrow distant lobes; upper oblong to linear with sagittate base. Inflorescence a spike-like panicle of numerous capitula. Capitula with 6-15 florets. Ligules pale yellow. Achenes 5-8 mm; body elliptical, finely muricate at apex, 7- to 8-ribbed, pale brown; beak 1½-3 times as long as body.

Life Form

Phytochoria

ES+MED. The native range of this species is Azores, Europe to Iran, NW. Africa.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain: Kaam area 2005

Jabal Nafusa: Gharain 2008

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Valley Jarjr-oma 2013

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.cretanflora.com/lactuca_saligna.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_lactucasaligna.php, https://maltawildplants.com/ASTR/Lactuca_saligna.php, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/lactuca-saligna, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactuca_saligna

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327391-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/327391-2, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000107983, https://www.gbif.org/species/3140467, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/138085/lactuca-saligna-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2725.html, https://maltawildplants.com/ASTR/Lactuca_saligna.php, https://www.ksanature.com/plants/lactuca_saligna/, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_lactucasaligna.php, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/lacsal/, https://agroatlas.ru/en/content/related/Lactuca_saligna/index.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactuca_saligna

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

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Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:

El-Mokasabi, F.M. (2017) Studies on the Flora of Libya. Cont ROL, Research article I Botany l Version 1.

Studies on the Flora of Libya. 2017

Abusaief, H. M. A. (2013) Life forms and rangeland for many habitats of Jarjar oma in Al-Jabal Al- Akhdar on Mediterranean Sea. Journal of American Science 2013;9(5) http://www.jofamericanscience.org/journals/am-sci/am0905/029_17747am0905_236_249.pdf

Al-Shif, N. S. (2005) a taxonomic study of the plants of the Kaam region. Master Thesis, College of Science, Al-Marqab University, Al-Khums, Libya. (In Arabic).