| Gagea granatellii (Parl.) Parl., It is a bulbous geophyte, bulbs usually in pairs, large bulb spherical 1-1.5 cm in diameter, smooth, the other small reticulate-foveolate, tunics coriaceous, brownish, enveloped in fibrous roots. Leaves 2, flat, linear-lanceolate attenuating towards tip, usually exceeding the inflorescence, up to 0.7 cm broad, margins, and basal parts densely hairy. Bracts leafy, ± canaliculate, equaling to longer than flowers, margins ciliate. Scape 6-15 cm long, glabrous to villose, inflorescence umbellate-corymb, 2-15-flowered, pedicels 1-1.5 cm long. Perianth showy, with narrow-lanceolate tepals, 1-1.5 cm long, outer surface villose, greenish with yellowish to whitish margins, inner surface yellow. Stamens 0.7-1 cm long, filaments ± filiform, anthers ovoid-oblong. Ovary obovid-elongate ± trilobed, style as long as to slightly longer than stamens. Capsule ovoid-oblong ± trilobed, seeds oblong to ovoid with brown, reticulate testa. Life Form: G, Flowering in: Feb-Apr, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is W. Central Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:535532-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/535532-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000768484, https://www.gbif.org/species/5300007, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/160950/gagea-granatellii-parl-parl, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_gageagranatelli.php, http://www.sardegnaflora.it/linkerbe%20a-l/gagea_granatellii.html |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Jabal Nafusa |
| Tarhuna (Wadi Milghah) 1919 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Liliaceae Vol. (57) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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