General Appearance
Minuartia campestris L., it is an annual herb, glandular-hairy to glabrescent with up to 30 cm long, ascending shoots. Leaves sub erect, ovule-lanceolate, up to 2 cm long, sharply long acuminate, 3-nerved. Inflorescence axillary, dense, dichasial, sessile, cymose cluster. Flowers on 2-3 mm long, pedicels. Sepals unequal, unicostate, linear-lanceolate, 5-8 mm long, acute-acuminate. Petals ovate, less than half as long as sepals, white. Stamens 5 (-10), as long as petals; anthers yellow. Ovary ovoid. minutely stiped, glabrous. Capsule membranous, oblong-cylindric, shorter than and enveloped by sepals. Seeds rounded-reniform, 0.4-0.7 mm long, brown, finely tuberculate.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
Jabal Nafusa: Reported from Gharian, Khoms by Pampanini and Maire and from Wadi Gharian, Tarhuna, Misallata by Keith
Notes
Wild. I have not found any recent records of this species in Libya so far.
This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:155472-1
Link of images: https://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Caryophyllaceae/Minuartia_campestris.htm, https://www.gbif.org/taxon/43K87
For more information
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:155472-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/155472-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000375605, https://www.gbif.org/taxon/43K87, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/133915/minuartia-campestris-l, https://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Caryophyllaceae/Minuartia_campestris.htm
First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:
Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Caryophyllaceae Vol. (59) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. Page. 55.
Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:
PAMPANINI, R. (1914). Piantae Tripolitanae, ab auctore anno 1913 […] – Firenze: 76 – under: Alsine campestris (L.) Fenzl
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