Flora

Suaeda palaestina Eig & Zohary

Common Name: ——-

Family: Amaranthaceae

Flowering Time: Jan-Apr.

General Appearance

Suaeda palaestina Eig & Zohary, it is a subshrub, with smaller leaves (4-) 5-10 (-12) x 1-2 mm, sessile and acutish at apex, mostly arcuate or ± up curved. Flowers hermaphrodite, solitary, axillary. Bracteoles very small, lanceolate, scarious. Perianth c. 2 mm, with (4-) 5, ovate-oblong, narrowly while margined segments; stigmas (2-) 3. Seeds vertical, beaked, glossy.

Life Form

Phytochoria

SA. The native range of this species is Kriti, N. Libya to Palestine.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Near Al-Kararin 1968 Misurata 2008

Al-Jabal Al-Akhader:

Barce 2016 Wadi Derna 2017

Marmarica Plateau:

(70 km) E. Derna to Tobruk 1975

Notes

Wild in Libya.

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:167533-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/167533-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000438040, https://www.gbif.org/species/3756553, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/131911/suaeda-palaestina-eig-zohary, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=224182, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/suapal/, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/72120.html, https://redlist.parks.org.il/en/plants/detail/Suaeda%20palaestina/

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:

Ab-Aziza, F.B., El–Barasi, Y.M. and Rahil, R.O. (2017) Flora, Vegetation and Human Activities of Wadi Derna-El-Jabal. Research article I Botany l Version 1. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fatma-Abuaziza, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebeh-Rahil

Hegazy, A.; Kabiel, H.; AlRowaily, S.; Lovett-Doust,L. and AlBorki, A. (2016) Plant communities and reproductive phenology in mountainous regions of northern Libya. Journal of Forestry Research. July 2017, Volume 28, Issue 4, pp 741–761. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11676-016-0345-8, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmad-Hegazy-2

Baayo, Kh. A. (2008): Floristic composition and Phytochorological Analysis of Misratah area, Libya, Assiut Univ.J. of Botany 37(2), P-P. 33-78 (2008)