Silene villosa  Forssk.

Family: Caryophyllaceae
Flowering Time: Mar-May.

General Appearance

Silene villosa Forssk., it is an annual, procumbent to erect, up to 25 cm tall, patent viscid-glandulose, much branched herb. Leaves sessile, ± fleshy, oblong-oblanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 2-4.5 cm x 3-8 mm, sub obtuse. Flowers white to pink or pink-violet, c. 1 cm across, few to many in lax monochasia; pedicels erect at anthesis shorter to as long as or longer than calyx, reflexed in fruit; bracts leafy, linenr-lanceolate, shorter than pedicels. Calyx tube subcylindrical at anthesis, 15-20 (-25) x c. 2-3 mm, clavate, basally umbilicate, not contracted at the apex in fruit, 10-nerved, glandular hairy; teeth ovate-oblong, 2-3 mm long. obtuse, ciliate and white margined. Petal limb obovate, 3-6 mm long, 2-fid or partite; claws glabrous, long exserted, ± united; coronal scale oblong to triangular-ovate, 1-3 mm long. Stamens 10, filaments glabrous, exserted; anthers violaceous, oblong, up to 1.5 mm long. Ovary oblong-cylindrical, c. 6 mm long, glabrous, stiped, stipe c. twice as long as ovary; styles 3, exserted. Capsule ovoid-oblong, 8-12 mm long, carpophore as long as or slightly shorter than the capsule, glabrous. Secds rounded-reniform, c. 0.75 m long, brown, reticulate, ± convex on faces, grooved on the beak, un winged.

Life Form

Th

Phytochoria

SA+IT. The native range of this species is N. Africa to Sahara and Arabian Peninsula, W. & S. Iran, N. Central Pakistan.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain:  Misurata 2006

Sirte Plains:  Sirte 2015, 2016

Benghazi Plain:  Wadi El-Ghattara 2010 Beach sand dunes in Karkurah 2023

Jabal Nafusa:  Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020

Marmarica Plateau:  Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002

Al-Qibla area:  Wadi Nesma region 2009 Wadis South of Mizda 2013

Al-Hamada Al-Hamra:  (101 km) from Mizda to Al-Ghariat 1977

Ghadames area:  (100 km) from Nalut-Ghadames road 1973 (9 km) after Senawen, (109 km) from Nalut-Ghadames 1975

Al-Jufra area:  (94,98,100 km) from Hun to Sebha, Wadi Soda 1973 Jufra project, (8 km) from the road, (28 km) from Weshka, (5 km) after Weshka to Hun 1975

Fezzan area:  Grega, (150 km) from Sebha to Jerma 1973

Ghat area:  Ghat (Between Acacus and Tassili Mountains) 2004 Wadi Tanezzuft 2012

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. 93.

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

Alteerah, M.A., El-Barasi, Y.M., Ali Alwerfally, A. (2023) Vegetation cover composition and seed bank study of beach sand dunes in Karkurah coastal area, east of Libya. Sustainability, Agri, Food and Environmental Research, (ISSN: 0719-3726), 11(X), 2023. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Munay-Alteerah

Vegetation cover composition and seed bank study of beach sand dunes in Karkurah coastal area. 2023

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

An-updated-checklist-and-quantitative-analysis-of-the-Marmarica-Plateau-flora-مضغوط

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

Floristic Study and Species Diverisy of Msallata-Garaboulli Province. 2020

Elsayed, N. (2016) Relationship between Vegetation and Soil Seed Bank at Protected Versus Unprotected Sites at Coastal Habitats in Libya.CATRINA (2016), 15 (1): 59-68. https://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?user=mSAskW0AAAAJ&hl=en , https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18337_76652686b5c99f5fd479aebab87fbcb4.pdf

Vegetation and Soil Seed Bank at Protected Versus Unprotected Sites at Coastal Habitats in Libya. 2016

Elsayed M. A. N. (2015) Floristic Composition of the Plant Cover at Surt Region in Libya. Catrina (2015), 12 (1): 63-71-2010 By the Egyptian society for environmental SCIENCES. https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18403_37c687e375b9144800a15704e68ebad7.pdf

Floristic Composition of the Plant Cover at Surt Region in Libya. 2015

Mohamed, F.J. (2013) A Taxonomic Study of Wadis Flora South of Mizda at the intersections with Mizda-Sebha Highway. Master Thesis. Department of Botany-Faculty of Science-Sebha University. Libya. (In Arabic).

Mukassabi, T.A, Ahmidat, G., Sherif, I.M., ELMogasapi, A. (2012) Checklist and life forms of plant species in contrasting climatic zones of Libya. Biological Diversity and Conservation – 5 / 3 (2012) https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/biodicon/issue/55888/765799https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259357995_Checklist_and_life_forms_of_plant_species_in_contrasting_climatic_zones_of_Libya

Checklist and life forms of plant species in contrasting climatic zones of Libya. 2012

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

Bahri, N.M. (2009) Study of the vegetation covers of Wadi Nesma region, northwest of Libya. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, College of Science, Sebha University, Libya. (In Arabic).

Al-Dana, S. M. M. (2006) Taxonomic study of wild flower plants in some areas of Misrata. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Misurata University (7 October previously) Misurata, Libya. (In Arabic).

Ahmidat, Gh. (2004) Study of the vegetation cover of the area between the Acacus Mountains and the Tassili Mountains (Ghat). Master Thesis. Department of Botany.College of Science. Sebha University. Libya. (In Arabic).

El-Shaary M.S. (2002). The Natural Vegetation in Marmarica plateau (North-eastern Libya). First ed. Tobruk (Libya): Published by the local Authority. (In Arabic).

PAMPANINI, R. (1914). Piantae Tripolitanae, ab auctore anno 1913 […] – Firenze: 84 – under: Silene villosa var. micropetala Coss. ex Batt.

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