Scandix pecten-veneris L.

Family: Apiaceae
Flowering Time: Feb-Jun

General Appearance

Scandix pecten-veneris L., it is an annual herb, sub erect to spreading, up to 35 (-50) cm tall, much branched from base, pilose or hispid-villose to sub glabrous, with furrowed stem. Leaves oblong to triangular-ovate, (1-) 5-20 x (0.5) 1-8 cm, 3-pinnatisect into linear-lanceolate, (0.75-) 2-5 (-8) x 0.5-2.5 mm. acute or obtusish, mucronulate, ± recovered, setulose margined ultimate segments; lower leaves with slender, up to c. 10 cm or more long, caoaliculate petiole; upper leaves short-petioled or sub sessile. Leaf sheath 0.3-2 cm long, villose on margins. Umbels 1-2 (-3)-rayed on terminal and lateral, glabrous, 1-3 cm long peduncles; rays sub equal, 1-3 (-4) cm long, acerescent and thickened in fruit. with villose margins. Umbellules 3-8 (-10)-flowered. Pedicels ± equal, 2-4 mm long, thickened in fruit. Bractlets 3-5, lanceolate, (2-) 4-8 (-10) x (1-) 1.5-4 mm, often 2-3 (-5)-fid or deeply emarginate, rarely entire and acuminate at the apex, ciliate on margins. Petals unequal, obovate, (0.75) 2-3 mm long, ± radiating, shortly notched, white. Anthers yellow. Styles erect, 2-3 times as long as stylopodium. Fruit linear subulate, 3-5 (-7.5) x0.2-0.35 cm (incld. beak), robust, strongly compressed dorsally, usually scabrid; beak 3-4 times as long as seed, bearing part of the mericarps, gradually narrowed upwards, ± striale; mericarps prominently ribbed.

Life Form

Th

Phytochoria

S-Cosm. The native range of this species is Europe, Macaronesia to NW. India.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain:

Tripoli 1976

Benghazi Plain:

Tokra 1973 Between Al-Kuwafiyah and Daryana, N.E. Benghazi 1968  Wadi El-Ghattara 2010

Jabal Nafusa:

Common in Gebel Nafousa??.  Misallata (Shaafeen) 2008  Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020  Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhader:

Al-Bakuer, Wadi El-Kouf 1968  Marawa, Wadi Mahbool 1973  Gasar Libya 1978  Wadi Zaza 2003  Gaber Jera 2013  Wadi Haboon 2015  Sidi Abu-Ras 2017  Al-Abiar (Sidi Amohamed forest) 2020

Marmarica Plateau:

Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930  Omm Rezem 1968

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:

El-Ahmir, S.M., Mahklouf, M.H., Shanta, M.B., Abo-Jaafer, H.A. (2020) Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District-Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology. Volume 8 / Issue 1. ISSN: 2348-7313. https://zenodo.org/records/3931997, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sh-Hoob-El-Ahmir, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf

Al-Amrouni, M, M., Al-Zarbi, A., Al-Aeb, M. A. (2020) Study of vegetation cover in Sidi Amohamed forest north of the city of Al-Abyar in the Al-Jabal Al-Al-Akhdar. Libya. Journal of Quality Assurance for Scientific Research-The first issue-April-2020 (In Arabic). https://lqac.org.ly/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PDF-1.pdf,  https://independent.academia.edu/ABDULHAMIDALZERBI

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

El-Zerbi, A. K. & Al-Aib, M.A. (2017) Study of vegetation cover in Sidi Bouras region, Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering JESE, VOL. 1, No. 1, January 2017. (In Arabic).  https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abdulhamid-Alzerbi, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326461390_aalkhdr_baljbl_bwras_sydy_bmntqt_alnbaty_alghta_drast-lybya

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

Al-Tajouri, A., Al-Aaeb, M.A., Al-Zarbi, A. K. (2013) Barley crop contamination with weed seeds in Gaber-Jira farms in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. Journal of Benghazi University of Science-the third and fourth edition (45-53). (In Arabic).  https://search.mandumah.com/Record/838987

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

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