| Lythrum junceum Banks & Sol., it is a perennial plant, up 20 to 50 cm, glabrous, with stems lying down and radiating at the base, then ascending or diffuse. Leaves elliptical or oblong-lanceolate rounded at the base, sessile, most alternate. Flowers 1-1.5 cm across, heterostylous, solitary, sub sessile, hypanthium cylindrical to obconical, 5-7 (-9) x c. 2 mm, 10-12 nerved, occasionally with red or purple spots in the middle. Accessary lobes 6, usually deltoid, acute, 0.7 x 0.5 mm. Sepals 6, somewhat shorter than the accessory lobes. Petals 6, inserted at the apex of hypanthium, up to 1 cm long, pink or purplish, obovate. Stamens 12-6 exserted and 6 included in the hypanthium, anthers yellow, broadly oblong, c. 0.5 mm long. Capsules cylindrical dark brown c. 5 x 1.5 mm. Seeds broadly ovoid c. 0.8 x 0.6 mm, gibbous or strongly convex on the dorsal surface, rugulose. Life Form: H , Flowering in: Jun-Sep, Vern:——————, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Macaronesia, Medit. to S. Iran, Australia. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:553740-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/553740-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000366892, https://www.gbif.org/species/3988701, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148690/lythrum-junceum-banks-sol, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2886.html, https://www.maltawildplants.com/LYTH/Lythrum_junceum.php, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_lythrumjunceum.php, https://hoseito.com/producto/lythrum-junceum-banks-sol/, https://biodiversitycyprus.blogspot.com/2016/02/lythrum-junceum-banks-sol-cyprus.html, https://botany.cz/cs/lythrum-junceum/, https://phrygana.eu/Flora/Lythraceae/Lythrum-junceum/Lythrum-junceum.html |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Jabal Nafusa |
| Coastal of Tripoli 2020 | Reported from Gharian by Pampanini and Keith |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1983) Flora of Libya, Lythraceae Vol. (105) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Mahklouf, M.H. (2020) Biodiversity of the coastal flora of Tripoli Province. Biodiv. Res. Conserv. 58: 13-19, 2020. BRC www.brc.amu.edu.pl, http://brc.amu.edu.pl/pdf-127341-54763?filename=Biodiversity%20of%20the.pdf, http://brc.amu.edu.pl/Issue-58-2020,9131 | coastal flora of Tripoli 2020 |
