Flora

Matthiola lunata DC.

Family: Brassicaceae

General Appearance

Matthiola lunata DC., it is an annual herb, ± pubescent with unequal hairs. greenish in appearance, up to 10-50 cm long, sub erect to diffuse, very variable. Leaves sinuate-dentate to entire. Flowers purple violet. Pedicels up to 4 mm long in lower fruits, stout. Sepals 6-12 mm long. Petals 15-20 (-25) x 3-6 mm. oblong-obovate; nectaries very small, inconspicuous. Siliquae 30-70 x (1-) 1.5-2 mm. cylindrical, straight, spreading or deflexed, torulose; horns 24 mm, sub obtuse, curved upwards; stigma short.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is SE. Spain, N. Africa.

Distribution in Libya

Benghazi Plain: Msus-Al-Ajramia zone 2004

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Apollina di Barca 1869 (5 km) from Susa to Shahat 1972 Gebel Akhder 1973

Notes

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:286922-1

Link of images: https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/matthiola-lunata, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/brassicaceae/matthiola-lunata

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:286922-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/286922-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000369006, https://www.gbif.org/species/5377345, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/142013/matthiola-lunata-dc, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/matthiola-lunata, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/brassicaceae/matthiola-lunata, http://atlas-sahara.org/Brassicaceae/Matthiola%20lunata/Matthiola%20lunata.html?cat=Brassicaceae

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Ali, S.I. & Jafri, S.M.H. (1977) Flora of Libya, Brassicaceae Vol. (23) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. Page. 160.

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

El-Jetlawi A.O.(2004) Study of vegetation and soil seed bank of a range desert zone (Msus-Al-Ajramia), Master of Science Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Benghazi University, Benghazi, Libya (In Arabic).