| Roemeria hybrida (L.) DC./ Heterotypic Synonyms: Papaver dodecandrum (Forssk.) Medik, it is an annual herb, up to 10-30 (-50) cm tall, erect or sub erect, hispid to almost glabrous. Leaves usually 2-3-pinnatisect, 2-5 cm long, lower or basal petiolate, somewhat broad and sheating al the base; ultimate segments linear to ovate, with or without a pointed terminal bristle; cauline leaves similar but sessile or sub sessile rarely 3-fid to almost simple. Pedicels up to 9 cm long, erect to recurved in fruit; buds narrow, pyriform, obtuse, 10-12 x 5·7 mm. Sepals 10-12 x 4-5 mm, oblong, hooded at the apex, densely pilose to glabrous. Petals violet, usually with a black blotch at base, broadly obovate, to sub rounded, 20-25 mm. Stamens many. c. 1 cm long; filaments subulate. Anthers c. 1.5 mm long. Ovary c. 1 cm long, oblong-linear, usually hispid; stigmas 4, capitated, puberulous. Capsules linear, 20-75 x 1.5-3 mm, densely to sparsely setose, at least above, rarely almost glabrous, dehiscing from base to apex by 3·4 valves. Seeds reniform, c. 1 mm in diam. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Feb-Apr, Vern: Mungar El-Gharab, Talma, Phytochoria: MED+SA+IT, The native range of this species is Canary Islands (Fuerteventura), Medit. to Central Asia and Pakistan. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:63003-3, https://www.ipni.org/n/63003-3, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000404703, https://www.gbif.org/species/7315023, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/150009/roemeria- hybrida-l-dc, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/4204.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_roemeriahybrida.php, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/32091.html, https://www.floravascular.com/index.php?spp=Roemeria%20hybrida |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains |
| Al-Zawia 1975 | Misurata 1975 | Reported from Sirte by Maire |
| Benghazi Plain | Jabal Nafusa | Marmarica Plateau |
| Reported from Benghazi by Maire | Gebel Nafousa, (108 km) S.E. of Jado 1970 (37 km) from Kaleba to Mizda, Gharian, (9 km) from Gharian 1975 | Reported from Bardia by Maire Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1977) Flora of Libya, Papaveraceae Vol. (40) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Saaed, M.W.B., EL-Barasi, Y.M. & Rahil, R.O. (2021) An updated checklist and quantitative analysis of the Marmarica Plateau flora, in the north-eastern part of Libya. Phytotaxa 509 (1): 001-055. https://www.mapress.com/j/pt/, https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.509.1.1 | An updated Marmarica Plateau flora 2021 |
