| Anacamptis coriophora (L.) R.M.Bateman, Pridgeon & M.W.Chase / Homotypic Synonyms: Orchis coriophora L., it is a tuberous geophyte, glabrous. erect herb., up to 35 cm. Tubers ovoid or subglobose, sub sessile or shortly stipitate. Stem cylindrical, glossy-smooth. Lower leaves 4.7, forming a rosette, largely linear, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, apiculatc, attenuate at base, margin largely papillose, cauline leaves 3-4, reduced, acuminate and largely sheathing, Inflorescence cylindrical, densely multi-flowered. Bracts lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 1-nerved, membranaceous, acuminate. Flowers small, purple or dusky-purple with pink dots and vanilla odour. Sepals united up to middle, ovate-lanceolate, much longer than the petals, median lobe 1-nerved, laterals 2-nerved. Petals lanceolate or largely linear. 1-nerved, obtuse, acuminate. Labellum sessile, pendulous, trifid or half its length into unequal lobes, finely papillose on the upper face, greenish or purple with a pale median band and pink dots, midlobe oblong or oval, entire, lateral lobes rhombic or sub quadrangular, somewhat crenellate. Spur conical, obtuse, descendant, somewhat shorter than or equal to the labellum. Gynostemium erect. Anther obovate, obtuse, shortly apiculate, purple, stigma oblong. Ovary cylindrical, ± incurved, twisted. Capsule ovate-oblong. Sub trigonous. Life Form: G, Flowering in: Apr-Jun, Vern:—————–, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Europe, Medit. to Iran. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:998299-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/998299-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000968343, https://www.gbif.org/species/2808461, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/161026/anacamptis-coriophora-l-r-m-bateman-pridgeon-m-w-chase, https://botany.cz/cs/orchis-coriophora/, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/anacamptis-coriophora, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/1579.html, https://jb.utad.pt/especie/Anacamptis_coriophora |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Jabal Nafusa |
| Misallata, da Gherrim a Sindara 1919 Misallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1985) Flora of Libya, Orchidaceae Vol. (119) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| 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. Journal homepage: http://scienceq.org/Journals/JABZ.php, https://bit.ly/3LgL0KQ, https://scienceq.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JABZV7I304.pdf | Msallata-Garaboulli Province in Libya 2020 |
| Mohammed, S.A.H. (2008) A taxonomic and ecological study of the plants of the Shaafin Reserve in Masalatah. Master Thesis. Department of Biology-Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Al-Mirqab University. Al-Khums. Libya. (In Arabic) | |
| PAMPANINI, R. (1914). Piantae Tripolitanae, ab auctore anno 1913 lectae et repertorium florae vascularis Tripolitaniae – Firenze: 61 — under: Orchis coriophora L. |
