Flora

Minuartia montana L., it is an annual, up to 10 cm tall herb. Stem simple or branched from the base with erect or sub erect shoots beset with white crisped hairs. Leaves linear-setaceous, up to 3 mm long, 3-costate, membranous margined, dilated and ± connate-vaginate at the base with few white curled hairs, acuminate. Inflorescence terminal and axillary, dense, sub sessile, dichasial clusters. Flowers sub sessile or pedicels up to c. 2 mm long, ± erect, Sepals linear-lanceolate, 6-9 mm long, erect, 3-costate, nerves with calcium oxalate discoid crystals, acute-acuminate, glabrous or sparsely glandulose on margins. Petals minute or absent. Stamens 10, unequal much shorter than sepals; anthers ovoid, yellow. Ovary ovoid, glabrous. Capsule ovoid-oblong, c. half or 2/3 as long as sepals, glabrous. Seeds rounded-reniform, 0,6-0.8 mm long, dark brown, obscurely and minutely tuberculate.

Jabal Nafusa:  Reported from Tarhuna by Maire and Keith

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:155597-1

Link of images:    https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_minuartiamontana.php,   https://identify.plantnet.org/the-plant-list/species/Minuartia%20montana%20L./data  https://arbabajojarama.es/herbario/minuartia-montana-loefl-ex-l/

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:155597-1,    https://www.ipni.org/n/155597-1,    https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000374886,   https://www.gbif.org/species/3812223,  https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/133941/minuartia-montana-l,    https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_minuartiamontana.php,   https://arbabajojarama.es/herbario/minuartia-montana-loefl-ex-l/,   https://identify.plantnet.org/the-plant-list/species/Minuartia%20montana%20L./data