Silene cyrenaica Maire & Weiller

Family: Caryophyllaceae
Flowering Time: Mar-Apr.

General Appearance

Silene cyrenaica Maire & Weiller, it is an annual, erect to ascending, up to 30 cm tall herb. Stem simple or basally branched, retrorsely short appressed pubescent to glabrescent below, ± villous with up to 1 mm long whitish, articulate hairs above. Leaves up to 2.5 cm long, lower obovate-oblanceolate, obtuse-mucronate and attenuate to a short petiole, upper ones elliptic-lanceolate, acute, all ciliate on margins and hispid hairy on both sides. Flowers purplish-pink, 1.5-1.8 cm across, in a 2-6-flowered lax helicoid monochasium; pedicels erect, retrorsely appressed hairy, shorter than the Calyx; bracts green, lanceolate, shorter to equalling the pedicels, ciliate on margins, acute. Calyx tube oblong-cylindrical at anthesis, 13-16 mm long, ± umbilicate, clavate-turbinate and not contracted at the apex in fruit, 10-nerved, nerves green to purplish, antrorsely appressed-puberulent throughout; teeth triangular-ovate, 3-4 mm long, ciliate and whitish on margins. Petal limb obovate-cuneate, 7-8 mm long, divided into oblong-linear, sub truncate lobes; claws white, included, ± connate at the apex; coronal scales oblong-linear, c. 2 mm long, obtuse, sub truncate to retuse at the apex, ± connate. Stamens 10, filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers oblong, c. 1 mm long, greenish-yellow. Ovary oblong, shorter than the retrorse hairy stipe. Capsule ovoid-oblong, 7-9 mm long, slightly exerted or not; carpophore shorter than the capsule, 5-6 mm long, retrorsely pubescent. Seeds rounded reniform, c. 2 mm loog, faces plane, back grooved with 2 undulate wings.

Life Form

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Phytochoria

Endemic. The native range of this species is NE. Libya.

Distribution in Libya

Benghazi Plain:  Wadi El-Ghattara 2010

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:  Wadi Mahbool, Baida to Derna 1973  Wadi Al-Agar 1999  Wadi Zaza 2003  Gebel Akhder 2009  Al-Mansora 2013  Wadi El-Kouf 2014  Wadi Om-El-Amaym 2019  From Zawiet Tamula to Al-Manarh, From Lustata to Beshtaya 2019

Notes

Wild. Endemic in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:157185-1

Link of images:  https://www.gbif.org/species/5584176

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. 75.

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

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 Bishtaya 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, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339238955_tsnyf_alghta_alnbaty_wtwzyh_aljghrafy_fy_almntqt_almmtdt_ma_byn_alhnyt_wwady_alzqzwq_shmala_hty_lstath_wbshtaya_jnwba_aljbl_alakhdr_shrq_lybya

El-farse, M.H. (2019) Study of the vegetation of Wadi Om-El-Amaym in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar region. Master Thesis- department of environmental science and engineering, Academy of post graduate studies, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic).

El-Mokasabi, F M. (2014) Floristic Composition and Traditional Uses of Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 14 (8): 685-697, 2014, ISSN 1818-769,IDOSIPublications,2014DOI:10.5829/idosi.aejaes.2014.14.08.12375. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/441b/23b83960f007044aca94e26f5c6b170fe102.pdf

Plant Species at Wadi Alkuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya 2014

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

Foristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al- Jabal Al- Akhdar 2013

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

Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. 2010

El-Darier, S.M. & El-Mogaspi, F.M. (2009) Ethno botany and Relative Importance of Some Endemic Plant Species at El-Jabal El-Akhdar Region (Libya). World Journal of Agricultural Sciences 5 (3): 353-360, 2009 ISSN 1817-3047, IDOSI Publications, 2009. http://www.idosi.org/wjas/wjas5(3)/16.pdf

Some Endemic Plant Species at El-Jabal El-Akhdar Region (Libya) 2009

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-Gawharihttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/281559070_Checklist_and_analysis_of_the_flora_and_vegetation_of_Wadi_Zaza_at_AI-Jabal_AI_Akhdar_Cyrenaica_Libya

Flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at Al-Jabal AI Akhdar 2003-مضغوط

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).

PAMPANINI, R. (1931). Prodromo della Flora Cirenaica. -: 196 – under: Silene colorata var. cyrenaica E.A.Durand & Barratte https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/records/item/14218-prodromo-della-flora-cirenaica

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