Flora

Chenopodium opulifolium Schrad. ex W.D.J.Koch & Ziz , it is an annual herb or apparently sometimes a short-lived perennial, up to 60–150 (–300) cm. high, which may become woody below, normally very much branched, green to almost white, rarely red-tinged, grey-mealy, sometimes densely so on young shoots, inflorescences and undersides of leaves. Leaves variable, mostly broadly and shortly rhombic-ovate, the median and lower almost as broad as long, from about (0.7 x 0.4 cm.–) 1 x 0.7–1 cm. to 3.7 x 2.8–3.7 cm. and 5.4 x 5.4 cm., in the lower third or about the middle normally with a short prominent often bilobed divergent lateral lobe each side, the margins above this lobe entire or with up to several teeth, apex of leaf rounded or acute; in African specimens the lobes not uncommonly less prominent or even the leaves sub entire; upper leaves smaller and more acute. Seeds black, shining, 1.1–1.5 mm. in diameter, bluntly keeled, testa under microscope marked with radial furrows and minute irregular papillose roughening in between.

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MED+SZ. The native range of this species is Europe, Medit. to Nepal, Eritrea to S. Tropical Africa.

Sirte Plains:

Sirte 2015