Flora

Pistacia atlantica Desf.

Common Name: Battoom

Family: Anacardiaceae

Flowering Time: Mar-Apr.

General Appearance

Pistacia atlantica Desf., Deciduous tree or shrub, 5-7 m tall with dense globose crown. Levees imparipnnate; leaflets 2-4 (-5)-paired, very variable, orbicular-ovate, ovate-oblong or lanceolate, 2-4.5 x 0.5-1.8 cm, obtuse, emucronate, glabrous, dark green above, pale green beneath, margin ciliolate, rachis uniformly very narrowly winged; petioles purulent. Flowers somewhat brownish arranged on long branches (paniculate). Drupes obnvoid or sub-globose, (4-) 5-8 x 5-6 mm, reddish at first, brownish later.

Life Form

Ph.

Phytochoria

MED+IT. The native range of this species is Canary Islands, S. & E. Medit. to W. Himalaya and Arabian Peninsula.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Kaam area 2005

Benghazi Plain:

(40 km) from from Bengazi 1972

Jabal Nafusa:

Gebel Nefousa, near Yefren 1970 El-Rhebat–Eshiab 1974 Near Ragrage Tejween, (10 km) befor Gharian 1977 Msallata (Shaafien) 2017 Tarhuna (Terghlat) 2018 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 Wadi Kaam (Main course, Headwaters) 2022

Al-Jabal Al-Akhader:

Wadi Jarjar-Omma 2017 Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2017

Al-Qibla area:

Wadi Nesma region 2009 Wadis South of Mizda 2013

Notes

Wild in Libya, medicinal plant, Endangered Plant in Libya.

Link of images: https://botany.cz/cs/pistacia-atlantica/ https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/anacardiaceae/pistacia-atlantica https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonimage/id77224/?taxonid=216734&type=1 http://atlas-sahara.org/Anacardiaceae/Pistacia%20atlantica/Pistacia%20atlantica.html?cat=Anacardiaceae

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:70236-1. https://www.ipni.org/n/70236-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000394548, https://www.gbif.org/species/3190581, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/131946/pistacia-atlantica-desf, https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=506466#null, https://identify.plantnet.org/the-plant-list/species/Pistacia%20atlantica%20Desf./data, https://maltawildplants.com/ANCR/Pistacia_atlantica.php, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6197525/, https://almerja.net/reading.php?idm=142689, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10681-020-02658-y http://atlas-sahara.org/Anacardiaceae/Pistacia%20atlantica/Pistacia%20atlantica.html?cat=Anacardiaceae, https://botany.cz/cs/pistacia-atlantica/ https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/anacardiaceae/pistacia-atlantica, https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonimage/id77224/?taxonid=216734&type=1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistacia_atlantica

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Anacardiaceae Vol. (52) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

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

Almushghub, F., Ahmed, D., Sharaf El-Din, A., Shaltout, k. (2022) Vegetation analysis of Wadi Kaam at northwest Libya. Journal of Basic and Environmental Sciences, 9 (2022) 20-37. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357516127_Vegetation_analysis_of_Wadi_Kaam_at_northwest_Libya, https://jbes.journals.ekb.eg/article_372060_558ee8095e2cf97881a8a3cc705aa126.pdf

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

Beit Al-Mal, A. G. & El-Hadar, I. A. (2018) An analytical study of vegetation (Case Study: Targhalat, Tarhouna Municipality, Libya.Special issue of the second annual conference on theories and applications Basic and Biological Sciences. 1 September 2018.

Bahri, N.M. (2017) Identify, Limit and Determine the Vegetation Types of Wadi Ka’am Areas, Libya. Journal of Marine Sciences and Environmental Technologies-Volume (3) -Issue (2) (In Arabic) https://journals.asmarya.edu.ly/jmset/index.php/JMSET/article/view/95, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371282756_altrf_ly_alanwa_alnbatyt_lmnatq_wady_kam_whsrha_wthdyd_ashkal_nmwha

Dakeel, E. H., Alaib, M. A., & Asker, A. M. (2017). Comparative Study of Medicinal Plants in Al Mansora and Jarjar oma, Al Jabal Al Akhdar, Libya [Version 1; awaiting peer review]. Control, 1, 4. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0IlfctkAAAAJ&hl=ar, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jIAXOgMAAAAJ&hl=en, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8C9KFnIAAAAJ&hl=en

Mosallam, H.A., Mohamed, A.H., Sergiwa S.S, Gibreel, M.A (2017). Size distribution of some endangered plant species, Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. Egypt. J. Bot., Vol. 57, No, 1. Pp.181-197 (2017) https://ejbo.journals.ekb.eg/article_2500.html

Mohamed, F.J. (2013) A Taxonomic Study of Wadis Flora South of Mizda at the intersections with Mizda-Sebha Highway. Master Thesis. Department of Botany-Faculty of Science-Sebha University. Libya. (In Arabic)

Bahri, N.M. (2009) Study of the vegetation covers of Wadi Nesma region, northwest of Libya. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, College of Science, Sebha University, Libya. (In Arabic)

Al-Shif, N. S. (2005) a taxonomic study of the plants of the Kaam region. Master Thesis, College of Science, Al-Marqab University, Al-Khums, Libya. (In Arabic)