| Parentucellia latifolia (L.) Caruel / Heterotypic Synonyms: Parentucellia floribunda Viv., it is a hemi parasitic annual plant, a glandular or eglandular pubescent, erect (5-) 10-20 (-30) cm tall, with branched or unbranched stem. Leaves sessile, 5-7 nerved, deeply serrate; lower ones ovate, acute, 5-15 x 3-7 (-10) mm; upper leaves ovate-lanceolate, dentate, palmately lobed. Inflorescence an axillary, spike-like raceme, congested at the apex. Flowers purple; pedicels 0.5-1 mm long. Calyx 12-15 mm long, inflated, membranous, glandular pubescent: lacinae 4-6 (-7) mm long, elliptic-lanceolate. Corolla tube slender, somewhat exerted from the calyx tube; upper lip ovate, glandular hairy, lower lip, spreading, linear. 6-8 mm long, 3-lobed at the apex, lobes 2-3 mm long. Anthers globose, mucronate at the base, pilose hairy. Style filiform, stigma thick. Ovary c. 5 mm long, ovate-elliptic. Capsule enclosed by the persistent inflated calyx, elliptic ovate, 10-12 x 3-4 mm, glabrous. Seeds numerous, less than 0.5 mm long, ± ovate, shortly and funiculate, brownish. Life Form: Pa, Flowering in: Feb-Apr, Vern:—————-, Phytochoria: MED+IT, The native range of this species is Canary Islands, Medit. to Afghanistan, Sudan (Jebel Marra). Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:806703-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/806703-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0001139853, https://www.gbif.org/species/8049400, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/94511/parentucellia-latifolia-l-caruel, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/14.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_parentucellialati.php, https://botany.cz/cs/parentucellia-latifolia/, https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/parentucellia_latifolia.htm, http://www.menudanatura.com/2012/05/parentucellia-latifolia-l-caruel.html |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Reported from Gebel Akhdar area (Cyrenaica), Altiplano, above Al-Merj by Kieth Near Labrag 1968 Shahat to Faidia 1970 (22 km) from Baida to Al-Gubba 1979 Wadi Zaza 2003 Wadi El-Kauf 2014 Sidi Al-Hamri, Balghara, Wadi Ralles 2017 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1982 Flora of Libya, Scrophulariaceae Vol. (88) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Abusaief, H. M. A. (2017) Similarities between elevations in a rare species of some locations at Al- Jabal Al-Akhdar in Libya. International Journal of Environment ISSN 2077-4505.Volume: 06 Issue: 03 July-Sept. 2017, Page: 78-102. http://www.curresweb.com/ije/ije/2017/78-102.pdf | Similarities between elevations in a rare species 2017 |
| Abusaief, H.M.A. & Alwishish, F.M. (2017) Survey of endangered plants and description the seeds in some sites at Al-JabalAl-Akhdar of Libya. Curr. Sci. Int., 6 (3): 511-539, 2017 ISSN 2077-4435. http://www.curresweb.com/csi/csi/2017/511-539.pdf | Survey of endangered at Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2017 |
| El-Mokasabi, F M. (2014) Floristic Composition and Traditional Uses of Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 14 (8): 685-697, 2014, ISSN 1818-769,IDOSI Publications,2014 DOI: 10.5829/idosi. aejaes. 2014.14.08.12375. https://bit.ly/3VtCvAA, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/441b/23b83960f007044aca94e26f5c6b170fe102.pdf | Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf 2014 |
| El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H.(2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://bit.ly/3VowJ3q, http://www.herbmedit.org/bocconea/16-1091.pdf | flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza 2003 |
