| Carex divisa Huds., it is a geophyte, greyish green perennial, 10-50(-80) cm, with long creeping rhizome. Rhizome sturdy, 1.5-3 mm in diam., with rather short internodes, covered with fibrous scales. Stem obtusely to sharply trigonous, distally more or less scabrous along the edges. Leaves 1/3 – 2/3 of stem length; sheaths 20-50 mm, outermost pale brown, mouth margin almost straight, ligule 0.2 mm, blades 1-3 mm wide, conduplicate to involute, seldom flat, adaxial side papillose, margins and mid-vein scabrous towards apex. Inflorescence terminal a dense foxtail-shaped ‘panicle’, 12-17 x 7-8 mm. Bracts bristle-like. Glomerules 5-7, bisexual, the largest 5 x 2 mm. Female bracts (glumes) longer and wider than perigynium, ovate, 4.5-5.0 x 2.5 mm, keel excurrent into scabrid awn up to 0.3 mm long. Perigynium sub erect, 4.2 x 1.8 mm, elliptic in cross section, not inflated, golden-brown, cartilaginous, glabrous, nervose; rostrum 1.5 mm long, apex shallowly bidentate. Nutlet ovate, broadly clawed, 2.0 x 1.6 mm, narrowly elliptic, yellowish brown, surface glabrous. Life Form: G, Flowering in: Feb-Jul, Vern:———-, Phytochoria: MED+IT, The native range of this species is Europe to W. China. Notes: Wild in Libya/
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:299516-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/299516-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000346179, https://www.gbif.org/species/2723410, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/37205/carex-divisa-huds, https://dryades.units.it/stagnisardi/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&id=7899&num=885 https://osogovonature.com/2022/10/24/carex-divisa-huds/, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/CARDIV/, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=507899, https://www.orchid-nord.com/Flore-France/Cyperaceae/Carex%20divisa/Carex-divisa.html, https://botany.cz/cs/carex-divisa/, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_carexdivisa.php |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Misallata, Wadi Zafrania 1931 | Lamluda, Gubba, Cirene 1933 Baida, Ain belaneg, Dahret Scpssu,Labrag 1934 Solnta, El Faidia, Labrag 1968 Valley Jarjr-oma 2013 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1985) Flora of Libya, Cyperaceae Vol. (120) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses , Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| 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 | Jarjar oma in Al-Jabal Al- Akhdar 2013 |
