| Plantago ciliata Desf., it is an annual, acaulcscent or sub acilulcscent, branched herb, 4-11 cm tall, densely floccose. Leaves in rosettes, 1.5-9 x 0.4-1.1 cm, obovate or lanceolate-spathulate, cuneate, base vaginate-dilated, apices hardened, acutish, entire, and floccose. Scapes 1-9 cm long, thick, decumbent, ascendant or arcuate, densely villous: spikes 1-2 cm long, dense, ovoid or short cylindrical. Bracts ovate, obtuse, 3.5 mm long, with a green midrib, margin ciliate, keeled. Sepals obovate, 3 mm long, villous at margin and apex. Corolla lobes palent, lanceolate, 1.5 mm long, acute. Capsule sub globose. Seeds 1.65–2.5 x 1–1.1 x 0.5–0.65 mm, mucilaginous, cymbiform (navicular), ± elliptical in outline, sometimes mucronulate; dorsal face convex, ventral face canaliculated, with the thread located towards its middle part. Surface somewhat shiny, dark amber brown, honeycomb-reticulated, with the pattern only perceptible under high magnification. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar- Jun, Vern:…………….., Phytochoria: SS, Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information:https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:685020-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/685020-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000487734, https://www.gbif.org/species/8058714, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/115142/plantago-ciliata-desf, https://www.floraofqatar.com/plantago_ciliata.htm |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Zliten-Misurata Plain | Benghazi Plain | Al-Qibla area |
| Misurata 1975 | (17 km) from Ajdabia to Aujila 1978 | Wadi Nesma region 2009 Wadis South of Mizda 2013 |
| Ghadames area | Al-Jufra area | |
| (119 km) from Nalut (Gadamcs-Nalut road), (9 km) after Sinawan 1975 | (30 km) N. Hun, Wadi soda (95 km) from Hun 1973 (2 km) from Weshka, Wadi Zaggar 1975 EL-Jufra 2018 | |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1979) Flora of Libya, Plantaginaceae Vol. (67) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| EL-Barasi,Y.M., Bader, B.M., Barrani. M.W., EL-Hashani, N.M. and Alamrouni, A.O. (2018) Ecological studies on EL-Jufra Desert Depression. https://bit.ly/45fIfT1, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi | Ecological studies On EL-Jufra 2018 |
| 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) | |
| 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) |
