Flora

Lemna gibba L., it is an aquatic hydroannual free floating. Root sheath not winged, tip mostly rounded a , broadly ovate to orbicular, dorsal surface greenish, sometime reddish brown, asymmetrical, slightly convex, 2-7 x 2-4 mm, mostly hemispherical and strongly swollen below with large inflated hyaline cells and air spaces and usually with 40-50 meshes and with 3-5 veins; new fronds budding laterally and remaining attached to very short stipes. Flowering cavity lateral, spathe enclosing 2 staminate and 1 pistillate flower. Fruit 1-5-seeded and winged; seed ribbed, utricle rounded.

Jabal Nafusa:

Reported from Ain Sharshara by Durand & Barratte

Al-Jabal Al-Akhader:

Wadi Derna 1967

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://botany.cz/cs/lemna-gibba/  https://www.apatita.com/herbario/especie.php?id=Lemna_gibba,  http://www.biopix.com/fat-duckweed-lemna-gibba_photo-112297.aspx,   https://www.i-flora.com/en/fact-sheets/search-for-species/art/show/lemna-gibba.html

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:526178-1,  https://www.ipni.org/n/526178-1,   http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000224424,    https://www.gbif.org/species/2867569,      https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/15696/lemna-gibba-l,   https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/644.html,   https://botany.cz/cs/lemna-gibba/,   https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_lemnagibba.php,  https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=30457,  https://www.ksanature.com/plants/lemna_gibba/,  https://www.apatita.com/herbario/especie.php?id=Lemna_gibba,    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemna_gibba,  https://flora.org.il/en/plants/LEMGIB/,  https://www.i-flora.com/en/fact-sheets/search-for-species/art/show/lemna-gibba.html,  https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=7866,   https://eol.org/pages/1142165