Flora

Foeniculum vulgare Mill.

Family: Apiaceae

General Appearance

Foeniculum vulgare Mill., it is an erect perennial or biennial herb, up to 2-2.5 m tall, glabrous, dark green with fusiform root, stems ± glaucous. finely sulcate, solid, terete. Lower leaves up to 5-20 cm long, petioles with conspicuous, 1-5 cm long, ribbed basal sheaths, lamina triangular or triangular, ovate, nearly as long as wide, 3-4-pinnatisect in to numerous, filiform, 5-40 x 0.3-0.7 mm, acute-mucronate ultimate segments: upper leaves akin to basal, sessile, few and much reduced, sometimes represented by basal sheath with a short, aristate appendage. Umbels (3-) 5-25 (-30)-rayed, numerous, long peduncled: rays patent. 1-7 cm long. unequal. glabrous. Umbellules (10-) 15-25-flowered, Pedicels (1-) 2-10 mm long. Petals oblong-ovate. c. 1×1 0.8 mm, yellow. Anthers yellow. suborbicular. Fruit oblong-ovoid. 4-6 x2-3 mm, pale-greenish or brownish, glabrous: mericarps with 5. prominent obtusely carinnte ribs.

Life Form

Phytochoria

Cosm. The native range of this species is Medit. to Ethiopia and W. Nepal.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain:

Sabratha region 2020

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Misurata 1967

Benghazi Plain:

Between Slouk and Al-Abiar 2016

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:

Shahat 1972 Shahat 2017 Al-Abiar (Sidi Amohamed forest) 2020

Marmarica Plateau:

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

Notes

Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.

Link of images:https://www.i-flora.com/en/the-smartphone-apps/iflora-deutschland/species/art/show/foeniculum-vulgare-1.html, https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:842680-1

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:842680-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/842680-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000691487, https://www.gbif.org/species/3034922, https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=29509#null, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/2014/842674/ , https://pfaf.org/user/plant.aspx?LatinName=Foeniculum+vulgare

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

Al-khojah, H.M., Al-Yafour, L.A., Mahklouf, M.H. (2020) Floristic Study of Selected Districts in Sabratha region Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology Volume 7/Issue 4 ISSN: 2348-7313. https://zenodo.org/records/3830169, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2s5EMysAAAAJ&hl=ar, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf

Al-Amrouni, M, M., Al-Zarbi, A., Al-Aeb, M. A. (2020) Study of vegetation cover in Sidi Amohamed forest north of the city of Al-Abyar in the Al-Jabal Al-Al-Akhdar. Libya. Journal of Quality Assurance for Scientific Research-The first issue-April-2020 (In Arabic). https://lqac.org.ly/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PDF-1.pdf, https://independent.academia.edu/ABDULHAMIDALZERBI

Abusaief, H.M.A. & Alwishish, F.M. (2017) Survey of endangered plants and description the seeds in some sites at Al-JabalAl-Akhdar of Libya. Curr. Sci. Int., 6(3): 511-539, 2017 ISSN 2077-4435. http://www.curresweb.com/csi/csi/2017/511-539.pdf

Raheel, RO. M., El-Borasi, Y. M., El-Barrani, M. W., El-Hassi, S. (2016) Study of Flora and vegetation cover of the semi-desert area between Salouq and Al-Abyar-the first high of Jabal Al-Akhdar-Libya, Fourth Scientific Conference for Environment and Sustainable Development In dry and semi-arid areas. Ajdabia. Libya. (In Arabic) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi , https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebeh-Rahil