Flora

Artemisia monosperma Delile

Common Name: Tguft.

Family: Asteraceae

Flowering Time: Sept-Des.

General Appearance

Artemisia monosperma Delile, it is a shrublet, up to 50-70 cm, green glabrous. Stems thick, ascending, diffuse or erect, ending in low, pyramidal, many flowered panicles. Leaves glabrous or sparsely hairy; those of sterile shoots pinnalisect, of stems short, usually clustered, simple, linear or trisect into linear lobes. Capitula c. 1 mm dim., crowded, shortly pcdunculate, nodding, ovate, 10-12-flowered. Involucre glabrous; outer involucral bracts glabrous; inner oblong. Receptacle glabrous. The flowers are Monoecious, yellow. Marginal 2 florets female, but normally only matures to form cypsela. Inner 8-10 florets functionally male. Fruits: Achenes.

Life Form

Phytochoria

SA. The native range of this species is E. Medit. to Arabian Peninsula.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain:

El-Zawia 2015

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Misurata 2008

Sirte Plains:

(7 Km) SE of Sitre City 2008 Sirte 2015 Wadi Al-Hamar Region 2020

Jabal Nafusa:

Reported from Gharian by Pampanini Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Ghat area:

Reported from Ghat area, El-Barkat, Wadi Iesien by Pampanini Ghat (Between Acacus and Tassili Mountains) 2004 Wadi Tanezzuft 2012

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/47517.html, https://eol.org/pages/6180344

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:179828-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/179828-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000025868, https://www.gbif.org/species/3121634, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/135977/artemisia-monosperma-delile, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/47517.html, https://www.ksanature.com/plants/artemisia_monosperma/, https://eol.org/pages/6180344, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/artmon/

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1983) Flora of Libya, Asteraceae Vol. (107) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

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

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

Omar, N.O.I., Alaib, M.A., El-Mghrbi, N.G., Alzerbi, A.K. (2020) Checklist of Flora and Floristic Study of Wadi Al-Hamar Region in Libya. Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Applied Science 6 (2), (2020) 20-24. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Naser-Omar

Al-Fiqi, Abd al-Salam Muhammad and Abul-Qasim, Rahma (2015) Inventory of the vegetation cover surrounding Al-Zawiya University. The Libyan Journal of Science Volume 18, 2014/2015 .(In Arabic). https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/issue/view/24

Elsayed M. A. N. (2015) Floristic Composition of the Plant Cover at Surt Region in Libya. Catrina (2015), 12 (1): 63-71-2010 By the Egyptian society for environmental SCIENCES. https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18403_37c687e375b9144800a15704e68ebad7.pdf

Mukassabi, T.A, Ahmidat, G., Sherif, I.M., ELMogasapi, A. (2012) Checklist and life forms of plant species in contrasting climatic zones of Libya. Biological Diversity and Conservation – 5 / 3 (2012). https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/biodicon/issue/55888/765799

Al-Aib, M. A. and El-Shakhy, N. O. (2008) Weed flora of great man made river agriculture project (sirte). Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, Vol.102, Issue 3: 241-25. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamed-Alaib, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/343655187_Weed_Flora_of_Great_Man-Made_River_Agriculture_Project_Sirte

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).

Ahmidat, Gh. (2004) Study of the vegetation cover of the area between the Acacus Mountains and the Tassili Mountains (Ghat). Master Thesis. Department of Botany.College of Science. Sebha University. Libya. (In Arabic).

PAMPANINI, R. (1914). Piantae Tripolitanae, ab auctore anno 1913 lectae et repertorium florae vascularis Tripolitaniae – Firenze: 247 — under: Artemisia monosperma var. libyca Chiov.