Flora

Ferula marmarica Asch. & Taub.

Common Name: Derias.

Family: Apiaceae

Flowering Time: Mar-Jun.

General Appearance

Ferula marmarica Asch. & Taub. , it is a perennial plant, rootstock thick, often with fibers of dead leaves. Stem erect, thickened, glabrimous, narrowly striated. Leaves, 4-pinnatisect, below pale-green with entire or 3-fid obtuse, mucronate ultimate segments. Umbels of one large terminal and (3-) 8-10 small, lateral ones. Bracts and bracteole5 usually absent. Petals yellow. Fruits rounded-ovate with narrow margin, vittae; 3 (4), commissurals ± 6.

Life Form

Phytochoria

Near endemic. The native range of this species is NE. Libya to Egypt.

Distribution in Libya

Jabal Nafusa:

Misallata (Shaafeen) 2017

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:

(11 km) from Ras El-Hilal to Derna, Gasr Libya 1978 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Gebel Akhder 2009 Qandulah, Al-Marj-Al-Baida motorway 2011 Wadi Al-Agar 2017 Wadi Derna 2017

Marmarica Plateau:

Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930

Notes

Wild in Libya, near endemic.

Link of images: https://www.gbif.org/species/3637559

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:842376-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/842376-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000686677, https://www.gbif.org/species/3637559, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/154769/ferula-marmarica-asch-schweinf, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferula_marmarica

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1985) Flora of Libya, Apiaceae Vol. (117) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

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

Saaed, M.W.B., EL-Barasi, Y.M. & Rahil, R.O. (2021) An updated checklist and quantitative analysis of the Marmarica Plateau flora, in the north-eastern part of Libya. Phytotaxa 509 (1): 001-055. https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.509.1.1

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

Al-Aib, M.A., El- Sherif, M., Al-Hamedi, R.I. (2017) Floristic and ecological investigation of Wadi Al-Agar in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya, Science & its applications 5:1 (2017) 57-61. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamed-Alaib

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

Hegazyi, A.K., Boulos, L., Kabiel, H.F. and Sharashy, O.S. (2011) Vegetaion and species altitudinal distribution in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar landscape, Libya. Pak. J. Bot., 43(4): 1885-1898, 2011. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmad-Hegazy-2, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hanan_Kabiel/publication/249011161_Vegetation_and_species_altitudinal_distribution_in_Al-Jabal_Al-Akhdar_landscape_Libya/links/58171d7c08ae90acb24128b9.pdf

El-Darier, S.M. & El-Mogaspi, F.M. (2009) Ethno botany and Relative Importance of Some Endemic Plant Species at El-Jabal El-Akhdar Region (Libya). World Journal of Agricultural Sciences 5 (3): 353-360, 2009 ISSN 1817-3047, IDOSI Publications, 2009. http://www.idosi.org/wjas/wjas5(3)/16.pdf

Al-Hamadi R.I. (1999) Floristic and ecological study of wadi Al-Agar, Master Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic)