Flora

Suaeda monodiana Maire

Family: Amaranthaceae

Flowering Time: Feb-Apr.

General Appearance

Suaeda monodiana Maire, it is a small shrub, up to 60 cm tall. glabrous, glaucous. not turning black on drying with somewhat angular stems, whitish in colour. Leaves alternate, obovoid-sub globose, narrowed below into a stalk-like base, but not articulated, upper ones usually up curved, spoon-like, fleshy, with rounded apices and margins, up to 10 x 3 mm. Flowers c. 3 mm across, in axillary glomerulus with usually central hermaphrodite flowers and lateral pistillate ones; bracts and bracteoles carious, hyaline, ovate-lanceolate. Perianth-segments 5. Stamens 5. exerted; anthers c. 1.5 mm. Stigmas usually 3, free, fruiting perianth hardly thickened. Pericarp membranous; seed ovoid-subreniform, 1-1.5 x c. 1 mm.

Life Form

N.Ph

Phytochoria

SA. The native range of this species is Western Sahara to Mali.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain:

Sabrata 2008

Ghat area:

(10 km) before Ghat, Ghat 1976 (30 km) from Ghat towards Wadi Aghaghe 1977

Notes

Wild in Libya.

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:167514-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/167514-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000438107, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.p00706291, https://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Amaranthaceae/Suaeda_monodiana.htm, https://www.floramaroccana.fr/suaeda-monodiana.html

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-Yafour, L. A. (2008) Taxonomic study of the vegetation properties of Sabratha city Master Thesis. Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Al-Zawiya University, Libya. (In Arabic)