Flora

Scandix australis L.

Family: Apiaceae

Flowering Time: Mar-May

General Appearance

Scandix australis L., it is an annual herb, erect or spreading, up 1020 (-40) cm tall, much branched with sub glabrous or basally pilose inconspicuously sulcate stem. Leaves with canaliculate, 2-5 cm long petiole, narrowly to broadly oblong, ovate, (1-) 2.5,10 (-13) x0.75-2.5 cm, 3-pinnatisecl in to linear or narrowly oblanceolate, 3.5 x 0.5-1 mm, scabridulous margined, acute or obtuse ultimate segments; lower leaves with 2-5 cm long, canaliculate petiole, upper leaves sub sessile. Leaf sheaths 8-15 mm long, sparsely villose or villose margined. Umbels 1-2 (-5)-rayed, on 24 cm long, scabridulous, leaf-opposed peduncles; rays sub equal, patent, slender, (1-)2·5 (-6) cm long, glabrescent-glabrous, one ray often bearing a secondary umbel. Bracts absent. Umbellules 3-10 (-16) flowered. Pedicels; ± equal, usually up to 2 (-4) mm long, hardly elongating in fruit. Bracelets 3-5, ovate-elliptic, 3-5 x 0.8-2 mm, entire or shortly bifid or emarginate at the tips, ciliate on narrowly membranous margins. Petals unequal, larger ones obovate, 1-1.5 x c. 1 mm, smaller c. 0.8 x 0.5 mm, all obtuse, white. Anthers yellowish or olive green. Styles erect, purplish, longer than the undulate-crenate margined, flattened stylopodium. Fruit linear-subulate, 1.5-4 x 1-1.5 cm (incld. beak) straight or ± falcate, glabrous to hispid; beak sub terete or ± compressed laterally, usually twice or thrice as long as the mericarps, scabridulous along the margins; mericarps distinctly ridged, 8·10mm long.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED+IT. The native range of this species is Medit. to Caucasus

Distribution in Libya

Benghazi Plain:

Wadi El-Ghattara 2010

Jabal Nafusa:

Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhader:

Wadi El-Kouf 1968 El-Abiar, Soltan to Marawa 1970 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 S.AL-Marj 2011 Al-Mansora 2013 Valley Jarjr-oma 2013 Wadi Haboon 2015 From Nuqrat Said to Wadi Al-Zagzoog 2019

Marmarica Plateau:

From Tobruk to Egyptian Border 1999

Notes

Link of images: https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_scandixaustral.php, https://botany.cz/cs/scandix-australis/

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:847973-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/847973-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000435240, https://www.gbif.org/species/6027018, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_scandixaustral.php, https://botany.cz/cs/scandix-australis/, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/scaaus/

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1985) Flora of Libya, Apiaceae Vol. (117) 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

Mahklouf, M.H., Sherif, A.S., Betelmal, A.G. (2020) Floristic Study and Species Diversity of Msallata-Garaboulli Province in Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology Volume 7 / Issue 3 ISSN: 2348-7313. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341306643_Floristic_Study_and_Species_Diverisy_of_Msallata-Garaboulli_Province_in_Libya

Ali, A. M., Lashhab, S. R., Abu-Aweena, A. A.M. (2019) Classification of vegetation cover and its geographical distribution in the area extending between Al-Haniya and Wadi Zagzoog in the north to Lasastata and Pashtota in the south. Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar eastern Libya. Issue (61) Journal of Science and Human Studies- Al-Marj- University of Benghazi-Libya (In Arabic) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/sd-lshhb

El-Rabiai, G.T. & Al tira, M. (2015) Checklist of the Flora of Wadi Haboon at AI Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). International Journal of Pharmacy & Life Sciences 6(8-9): Aug-Sep, 2015:4661-4665] Coden (USA): IJPLCP ISSN: 0976-7126. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Munay-Alteerah https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292919013_Checklist_of_the_Flora_of_Wadi_Haboonat_AI_Jabal_AI_Akhdar_Cyrenaica_Libya

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

Abusaief, H. M. A. and Dakhil, A. H. (2013) The floristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar- Libya. New York Science Journal 2013; 6(5). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Huda-Abusaief

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).

EL-Barasi, Y. M., Barrani, M. W., Abdelsalam, O. EL-Amrouni, N., Mohamad, F. (2011) Check list of flora and vegetation on south EL-Marj zone: south EL-Jabal EL-Akhadar. Libya. Annals of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara-International Journal of Engineering. Tome IX (Year 2011). Fascicule 3. ISSN 1584-2673, 141-146. http://annals.fih.upt.ro/pdf-full/2011/ANNALS-2011-3-24.pdf

El-Rabiai, G.T., Al tira, F.M., Lamlom, S.H. (2010) Preliminary Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. Garyounis University Press Journal of Science and Its Applications Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 39-47, December 2010. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Wz8jpkIAAAAJ&hl=ar, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ALTsoucAAAAJ&hl=en, https://journals.uob.edu.ly/index.php/sjuob/issue/view/71

Mohammed, S.A.H. (2008) A taxonomic and ecological study of the plants of the Shaafin Reserve in Masalatah. Master Thesis. Department of Biology-Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Al-Mirqab University. Al-Khums. Libya. (In Arabic).

El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H. (2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmed-Gawhari, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281559070_Checklist_and_analysis_of_the_flora_and_vegetation_of_Wadi_Zaza_at_AI-Jabal_AI_Akhdar_Cyrenaica_Libya

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).

Al-Hamadi R.I. (1999) Floristic and ecological study of wadi Al-Agar, Master Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic).