| Hypecoum pendulum L., it is an annual, sub glabrous or glabrous herb, up to 30 (-40) cm long. With smooth stem and 2-3 pinnatisect, glaucous leaves, up to 10 cm long with somewhat sheathing leaf base; ultimate segments linear, 2-6 x )-1.5 mm. Flowers 8-12 mm in diam, pale yellow; pedicels 5-12 mm long. Sepals ovate, c. 2 mm long, sub membranous, whitish, obscurely denticulate, sub obtuse. Outer petal rhomboid to sub trilobed, c. 10 x 5 (-7) mm; inner petals slightly smaller, deeply 3-rid with sub orbicular-stipitate (spathulate) ciliate-fimbriate middle lobe and elliptic-oblong outer lobe. Fruits pendent, 30-70 x 3-4 (-5) mm, ± straight (not arcuate), terete, conspicuously tapering at the apex, scarcely jointed and not disarticulating. Seeds c. 2 x 1.5 mm. Life Form: Th, Flowering in:————-, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: ES+MED+IT, The native range of this species is Medit. to Central Asia and W. Himalaya, Arabian Peninsula to NW. India. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:673249-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/673249-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000727181, https://www.gbif.org/species/2888559, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/149910/hypecoum-pendulum-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2638.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_hypecoumpendulum.php, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/20453.html |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Benghazi Plain | Jabal Nafusa |
| Sabrata 2008 | Beach sand dunes in Karkurah 2021 | Ganduba, (35 km) from Gharian, Buzaian 1974 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 |
| Marmarica Plateau | ||
| From Tobruk to Egyptian Border 1999 | ||
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1977) Flora of Libya, Hypecoaceae Vol. (44) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Alteerah, M.A., El-Barasi, Y.M., Ali Alwerfally, A. (2021) Vegetation cover composition and seed bank study of beach sand dunes in Karkurah coastal area, east of Libya. Sustainability, Agri, Food and Environmental Research. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Munay-Alteerah | Karkurah coastal area 2021 |
| 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 |
| El-Ahmir, S.M., Mahklouf, M.H., Shanta, M.B., Abo-Jaafer, H.A. (2020) Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District-Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology. Volume 8 / Issue 1. ISSN: 2348-7313. https://bit.ly/3VkL3Kh, https://scienceq.org/floristic-study-of-sedrores-mountains-in-gharyan-district-libya.php | Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan 2020 |
| El-Yafour, L. A. (2008) Taxonomic study of the vegetation properties of Sabratha city Master Thesis. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Al-Zawiya University, Libya. (In Arabic) | |
| EL-Habony, A.M. (1999) Vegetation and flora of a sector along Mediterranean cost of Libya from Tobruk to Egyptian border, M.Sc. Thesis, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic) |
