| Paramollugo nudicaulis (Lam.) Thulin / Homotypic Synonyms: Mollugo nudicaulis Lam., it is an annual herb up to 25 cm tall. Leaves basal, 1.5-6.0 cm long, 6-16 mm broad, and spathulate to oblanceolate, glabrous, and attenuate. Flowers in dichasial cymes; scapes slender, glabrous, involucral bracts ovate-oblong, 1-2 mm long, scarious. Pedicels up to 1.4 cm long. Sepals oblong, 2.5-3.0 mm long, mucronate, imbricate persistent. Filaments c. 1 mm long, persistent, anthers less than 1 mm long, sub-globose. Ovary sub-globose, 1.5 mm long. Stigmas 3, short, curved. Capsule as long as the sepals, sub-globose, dehiscing by 3 valves. Seeds less than 1 mm, muricate, minutely strophiolate, black and shiny. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Aug-Nov, Vern:—————, Phytochoria: Pal, The native range of this species is Africa to Sinai, SW. Arabian Peninsula, Afghanistan to China (Guangdong) and Ibdo-China. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77158664-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/77158664-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000450300, https://www.gbif.org/species/9476003, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/238277/paramollugo-nudicaulis-lam-thulin, https://efloraofindia.com/2011/03/13/mollugo-nudicaulis/, https://portal.wiktrop.org/species/show/215 |
| 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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