| Corbichonia decumbens (Forssk.) Exell , it is an annual to perennial herb, sub erect to prostate, often basally sub woody, with up to 60 cm long, purplish branches. Leaves with 4-10 mm long, ± winged petioled, lamina oblanceolate-obovate to ovate-elliptic, 40-60 x up to 30 mm, cuneate at the base, entire, mucronate, and glaucous. Inflorescence terminal, becoming leaf-opposed, lax, few to many-flowered, on up to 5 cm long peduncle. Flowers pink to purplish, c. 5 mm across, pedicel up to 4 mm long, bracts lanceolate. Sepals elliptic to broad ovate, 4-5 x 2.5-3 mm, membranous margined. Stamens numerous, in 2 whorls, staminodes petaloid, numerous, oblong, c. 2.5 mm long, uniled at the base. Capsule ± globose, c. 4-4.5 mm in diameter, shining, yellow-green, glabrous, and enclosed by persistent sepals. Seeds compressed, shiny, black, inconspicuously strophiolale. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Oct-Feb, Vern:————–, Phytochoria: SZ+S.Afr., The native range of this species is Dry Tropical & S. Africa to India. Notes: Wild in Libya, a desert species.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:361371-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/361371-1, https://www.gbif.org/species/3783338, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/57888/corbichonia-decumbens-forssk-exell, http://www.kyffhauser.co.za/Plants1/Corbichonia_decumbens/Index.htm, https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=122960 |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Tibesti area |
| Reported from Tibesti by Ozenda |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1977) Flora of Libya, Molluginaceae Vol. (25) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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