| Roemeria sicula (Guss.) Galasso,Banfi,L.Sàez & Bartolucci / Heterotypic Synonyms: Papaver hybridum L., it is an annual herb, erect or sub erect , up to 30 (-50) cm tall, sparsely brunched, usually stiffly hairy with apprised or sub apprised hairs: sap white. Leaves 2-3-pinnatisect with usually linear or linear-oblong, short ultimate segments, up to 20 x 2 (-3) mm, usually bristle-tipped; basal leaves in loose roseate, larger; upper leaves smaller but similar. Flowers 2-5 cm in diam, on (5-) 10-15 (-25) cm long appressedly hispid peduncles. Flower bud (6-) 8-15 x (4-) 6-8 mm, broadly ellipsoid, densely bristly. Petals 10-20 (-25) mm, broadly obovate-sub orbicular, usually pink-red to crimson or scarlet (rarely pink or white) with blackish-violet spot at the base; stamen filaments c. as long as the ovary, slightly thickened above, usually violet with somewhat bluish anthers (c. 1 mm long). Capsules 10-15 x 6-12 mm, sub globose or broadly ovate-globose, densely covered with spreading or ± recurved bristles; stigmatic disc short, much narrower than the capsules, convex with 4-8 stigmatic rays, not or hardly exceeding the disc. Seeds very small, numerlus, grey-brown or black. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Feb-Apr, Vern: Bugraun, Talma, Phytochoria: MED+IT , The native range of this species is Macaronesia, Medit. to W. Himalaya and Arabian Peninsula. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77319917-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/77319917-1, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/23675/papaver-hybridum-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/3138.html, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=501270 |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains |
| Tripoli 1967 (8 km) from El-Goddaieda, (9 km) E. Tripoli 1976 Sabrata 2008 | (4 km) from Misurata 1975 Kaam area 2005 Misurata 2006, 2008 Sassu Valley 2016 | (7 Km) SE of Sitre City 2008 Wadi Al-Hamar Region 2020 |
| Benghazi Plain | Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Wadi El-Ghattara 2010 Ajdabia (Al-Bedan) 2016 Between Slouk and Al-Abiar 2016 Jardina-Soloq Region 2020 (35 Km) South East of Benghazi (adjacent to the Jardinah village) 2020 Wadi El-Enaghar 2021 Soloq (Beir Bullerjam) 2022 | Gebel Nafousa 1971 Gharian, Manga el-Bahar, (2 km) before Kaleba, Al-Awenia, Taglesa mountains, Gharian 1974 Josh (16 km) before Rumia 1975 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Tarhuna (Khsaya) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 | Wadi Derna 1968 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 S. of AL-Marj 2011 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Wadi Haboon 2015 Sidi Abu-Ras 2017 Al-Oylia region 2017 Wadi Om-El-Amaym 2019 Al-Abiar (Sidi Amohamed forest) 2020 |
| Marmarica Plateau | ||
| Al-Tamimi 1968 | ||
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1977) Flora of Libya, Papaveraceae Vol. (40) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
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