| Tulipa sylvestris L. / Infraspecific; Tulipa sylvestris ssp. sylvestris, Tulipa sylvestris ssp. australis (Link) Pamp. // Heterotypic Synonyms; Tulipa sylvestris var. mediterranea Pamp, it is a bulbous geophyte, perennial, with 1-3 ovoid bulbs, 1.5-3 cm diameter, tunics multi-layered coriaceous, dark brown in colour, the innerside covered at base and summet with brown appressed hairs. Stem simple, 20-35 cm high, smooth, glabrous, with showy terminal flower. Leaves 3-4, glaucous, linealr to linear-lanceolate, glabrous, smooth, shorter than stem 0.8-20 0.4-0.8 cm, the longest leaves usually basal. Flowers solitary, yellow-violaceous, segments canaliculate, more or less equal in length, inner 3-4.5 x 1.5-2 <:01, outer 3-4.5 x 0.7-1 cm. all with acuminate tip, white only inner hairy at base or margins, with brown. ± parallel nerves. Stamens ± equal, c.1.5 cm long, filaments entire, densely hairy at base, anthers yellow-brownish, basifixed c. 4 mm long. Ovary angled-elongate, slightly shorter or up to stamens level, with very short style and sub sessile stigma. Capsule acuminate at top. c. 3 x 1.5 cm. Life Form: G, Flowering in: Feb-Mar, Vern: Zumabq, Phytochoria: ES+MED, The native range of this species is Medit., S. Central & E. Europe to Xinjiang. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:543106-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/543106-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000746765, https://www.gbif.org/species/5299536, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/160994/tulipa-sylvestris-l, https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/127966/tab/fiche, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/tulipa/sylvestris/ https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/plants400/Profiles/ST/Tulipa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulipa_sylvestris |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Gharian 1952 Gharian 1967 (25 km) from Gharian to Yefren 1970 Yefren area 1974 | Wadi Zaza 2003 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Liliaceae Vol. (57) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H.(2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://bit.ly/3VowJ3q, http://www.herbmedit.org/bocconea/16-1091.pdf | flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza 2003 |
