| Hypertelis cerviana (L.) Thulin / Homotypic Synonyms: Mollugo cerviana (L.) Ser., it is an erect annual herb, up to 15 cm tall, with many, filiform, terete sub spreading stems. Leaves sessile, basal rosetted, linear-oblong to oblanceolate-spathulate, 2-10 x c. 0.5-3 mm, soon caduceus, cauline leaves whorled, up to 10 per verticel, linear. 5-15 x 0,5-1 mm, entire. Stipules scarious white, ovate-triangular. Inflorescence pedunculate, lax, terminal or axillary, ± umbellate cymcs. Flowers green, pedicellate, pedicels up to 10 mm long, patent to reflexed. Sepals free, elliptic, 1.5-2.5 mm long, membmnous on margins, persistent. Stamens 5, rarely more or less, filaments dilated at the base. Ovary 3-carpelled, 3-lacular, styles and stigmas 3. Capsule subglobose, c. 2.5 mm in diameter, enclosed by sepals. Seeds pale brown. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Jul-Nov, Vern:——————, Phytochoria: Pal, The native range of this species is Medit. to Africa, Arabian Peninsula to Mongolia and Indian Subcontinent. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77158665-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/77158665-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000450340, https://www.gbif.org/species/9397635, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/238278/hypertelis-cerviana-l-thulin, https://openherbarium.org/taxa/index.php?taxauthid=1&taxon=644652&clid=212, https://www.kyffhauser.com/Plants3/Hypertelis_cerviana/Index.htm |
| 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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