| Orobanche cernua Loefl., it is a holoparasitic perennial, 10-30 (-40) cm tall, minutely pruinose to glabrescent, simple, erect, often thickened below, brownish to purplish. Scales ovate-lanceolate 5-10 mm. Spikes dense, 10-20 cm long, many flowered. Bracts c. half as long as the corolla, bracteoles absent. Calyx ± half as long as the corolla, segment free, usually 2-dentate, sometimes almost entire. Corolla (12-) 15-20 mm long, blue, glabrescent, swollen below the insertion of the stamens, contracted in the middle, leaning at the top, with a bi lobed upper lip, the lower with almost equal non-ciliated lobes; stamens inserted towards the middle of the tube; glabrescent fillets and styles; whitish stigma. Life Form: Pa , Flowering in: Mar-May, Vern: Tamzellit, Phytochoria: Pal, The native range of this species is Old World. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:662226-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/662226-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000388524, https://www.gbif.org/species/3173260, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/149449/orobanche-cernua-loefl, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/orobanche-cernua, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_orobanchecernua.php, https://www.almerinatura.com/parasitas/orobanche-cernua.html |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains | Jabal Nafusa |
| Misurata 2015 Misurata (Sassu Valley) 2016 | Sirte 2015, 2016 | Wadi Gharian 1926 Gebel Nafousa 1971 Wadi Kaam (Dam & lake) 2022 |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Marmarica Plateau | Fezzan area |
| Wadi Derna 1926 | Acroma ad ovest de Tobruk 1933 | Reported from Fezzan by Corti Fezzan, Wadi Masauda 1953 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978 Flora of Libya, Orobanchaceae Vol. (55) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Almushghub, F., Ahmed, D., Sharaf El-Din, A., Shaltout, k. (2022) Vegetation analysis of Wadi Kaam at northwest Libya. Journal of Basic and Environmental Sciences, 9 (2022) 20-37. https://bit.ly/3AJ2ASJ, https://jbesci.org/viewp.php?files=published/9.1.3.pdf&id=213 , https://jbesci.org/published/9.1.3.pdf | Wadi Kaam 2022 |
| Aljarroushi, M.M. & Almedham, K. E. (2016) Geographical distribution and Life form of plants in Sassu Valley, Misurata area, Libya. Al-satil Vol. 10 No. 15. March 2016. https://bit.ly/3Ntrqh6, https://search.mandumah.com/Record/813441 | Sassu Valley 2016 |
| Elsayed, N. (2016) Relationship between Vegetation and Soil Seed Bank at Protected Versus Unprotected Sites at Coastal Habitats in Libya.CATRINA (2016), 15 (1): 59-68. https://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?user=mSAskW0AAAAJ&hl=en, https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18337_76652686b5c99f5fd479aebab87fbcb4.pdf | Surt region in Libya 2016 |
| Aljarroushi, M.M. & Almedham, K.E. (2015) Natural plant cover composition in Misurata area, Libya. Assiut Journal for Environmental Studies-42nd issue-July 2015. (In Arabic) https://www.aun.edu.eg/env_units/sites/default/files/pdf/magazine/res_July_2015/res7_July_2015.pdf | الغطاء النباتي الطبيعي في مصراتة 2015 |
| Elsayed M. A. N. (2015) Floristic Composition of the Plant Cover at Surt Region in Libya. Catrina (2015), 12 (1): 63-71-2010 By the Egyptian society for environmental SCIENCES. https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18403_37c687e375b9144800a15704e68ebad7.pdf | Plant Cover at Surt Region 2015 |
