Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants

Common Name: ——-
Family: Amaranthaceae
Flowering Time: Apr-Jul.

General Appearance

Dysphania botrys (L.) Mosyakin & Clemants / Homotypic Synonyms: Chenopodium botrys L., it is an annual herb up to 14-65 cm. Stem: glandular. Leaf: blade 3-65 mm, ovate to elliptic, wavy to pinnately lobed, lobes acute to obtuse, densely short-stalked-glandular abaxially. Inflorescence: arching; clusters in axillary or terminal panicles. Flower: short-pedicelled; calyx lobes distinct, weakly enclosing fruit, ± flat, densely short-stalked-glandular. Fruit: ± 0.5 mm diam, margin generally acute; wall adherent to seed, white-blotchy, minutely papillate. Seed: horizontal, bumpy.

Life Form

Th

Phytochoria

S.Cosm. The native range of this species is E. Central & S. Europe to Mongolia and Central Himalaya.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain:

Tripoli 1969

Jabal Nafusa:

Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Notes

Introduced weed in Libya, and very rare.

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1076147-2,  https://www.ipni.org/n/1076147-2,  https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000658871,  https://www.gbif.org/species/5568428,  https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/231459/dysphania-botrys-l-mosyakin-clemants, https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=20596#null, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi,  https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=85274, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.flora.fna004000496,  https://botany.cz/cs/chenopodium-botrys/,    https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/dysphania/botrys/, https://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/taxa/index.php?taxauthid=1&taxon=155&clid=18, https://www.i-flora.com/en/fact-sheets/search-for-species/art/show/dysphania-botrys.html, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/dysphania-botrys

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Chenopodiaceae Vol. (58) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:

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

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