| Epilobium hirsutum L. / Heterotypic Synonyms: Epilobium mirei Quézel, it is a rhizomatous, branched, erect, perennial herb, up to 90-200 cm tall. Stems usually terete or sub-terete, with long whitish and short glandular hairs. Leaves 4.5 x 0. 7-3.5 cm, opposite, lanceolate, acute, sessile, amplexicaul, ± hairy on both surfaces, margins ciliate with distant unequal and incurvated teeth. Racemes erect, leafy, terminal, hirsute. Pedicel c.7.5 mm long, with 15-23 mm wide flowers. Sepals lanceolate-acute, shortly hooded, deeply notched, 5-8 (-10) mm diam. Petals pink to rosy pink, 12-16 x 2-3 mm, broadly obovate, deeply notched. Stamens unequal, the longer 5-7 mm long and shorter 2-3 mm long. Anthers yellowish, ovate, 2.3 x 0.9 mm. Stigma deeply 4-lobed, each lobe 1.5-3 mm long, style erect, 7.4-11.5 mm long. Fruit a capsule, linear obuvate, erect, 3-7 cm long, papillose. Seeds numcrous, wbular with tufty hairs, coma c. 1 cm long, testa brown. Life Form: G, Flowering in: Jul-Oct , Vern:——————, Phytochoria: S-Cosm , The native range of this species is Temp. Eurasia to Africa. Notes: Wild, Rare in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:611919-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/611919-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000669196, https://www.gbif.org/species/3189172, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/17409/epilobium-hirsutum-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/395.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_epilobehirsute.php, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/epilobium/hirsutum/, https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/96180/tab/fiche, http://www.flowersinisrael.com/Epilobiumhirsutum_page.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilobium_hirsutum |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Tibesti area |
| Gubba, Derna 1934 | Reported from Tibesti by Kieth |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1980) Flora of Libya, Onagraceae Vol. (72) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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