Flora

Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants

Common Name: Suda -Tahara

Family: Amaranthaceae

Flowering Time: Jun-May

General Appearance

Dysphania ambrosioides (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants / Homotypic Synonyms: Chenopodium ambrosioides L., is an annual or short-lived perennial herb up to 25–130 cm. Stem: glabrous or gland-dotted. Leaf: blade 15–100 mm, ovate to lance-oblong, entire to coarsely dentate, serrate, or jagged-cut, generally densely glandular. Inflorescence: clusters, ± spheric, in terminal and axillary spikes; bracts 3–25 mm. Flower: calyx deeply 5-lobed, lobes smooth, enclosing fruit, sparsely glandular. Fruit: ± 0.5 mm diam; wall free from seed, glandular. Seed: vertical and horizontal, ovoid, +- red-brown, smooth.

Life Form

Phytochoria

Cosm. The native range of this species is America, Subantarctic Islands.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain:

Tripoli 1974, 1975, 1977 El-Zawia 2015 Al-Hdaba Treatment Plant Tripoli 2016

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Kaam area 2005

Sirte Plains:

Sirte 2016

Benghazi Plain:

Wadi El-Ghattara 2010

Jabal Nafusa:

Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:

El-Hamamah to Biada 2003 Wadi Zaza 2003 Wadi El-Shees 2014 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Wadi Zaza 2017 Wadi Derna 2017 Ain Mara 2020

Al-Jufra area:

El-Jufra 2018

Notes

Introduced weed in Libya, medicinal plant.

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1198060-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/1198060-2, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000658867, https://www.gbif.org/species/5568446, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/231458/dysphania-ambrosioides-l-mosyakin-clemants, https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=822812#null, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi, https://medplants.blogspot.com/2013/04/chenopodium-ambrosioides-dysphania.html, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=81840, http://publish.plantnet-project.org/project/plantinvasivekruger/collection/collection/synthese/details/CHEAM, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/amaranthaceae/dysphania-ambrosioides, https://www.i-flora.com/en/fact-sheets/search-for-species/art/show/dysphania-ambrosioides.html, https://www.wiktrop.org/observation/show/394737, https://www.floraofqatar.com/dysphania_ambrosioides.htm, https://antropocene.it/en/2023/01/10/dysphania-ambrosioides-2/, https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.113977, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysphania_ambrosioides

Bibliographic References

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Al-Maqsabi, F. M. & Makhlouf, M. A. (2020) Vegetation cover in the Ain Mara region, Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar region – Libya. The Libyan Journal of Science (An International Journal): Volume 23, 2020. (In Arabic) https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/article/view/122, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Farag-Elmokasabi-2

El-Ahmir, S.M., Mahklouf, M.H., Shanta, M.B., Abo-Jaafer, H.A. (2020) Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District-Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology. Volume 8 / Issue 1. ISSN: 2348-7313. https://zenodo.org/records/3931997, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sh-Hoob-El-Ahmir, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf

EL-Barasi,Y.M., Bader, B.M., Barrani. M.W., EL-Hashani, N.M. and Alamrouni, A.O. (2018) Ecological studies on EL-Jufra Desert Depression. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi

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