Flora

Allium barthianum Asch. & Schweinf.. it is a bulbous geophyte, bulb solitary ovate-oblong with small bulbels; tunics brown fibrous forming sheath covering the bulb and the lower part of the leaves at scape base. Leaves cylindrical fistulose with tapering tipes. about 20 cm long, Scape slightly shorter than leaves and covered with striped leaf sheaths; spathe acuminate, white tinged with brown-reddish veins, splitting open into two valves. Umbel hemispherical, flowers many, fertile; pedicels unequal, the longest twice as long as the flower, bracteoles present; perianth more or less campanulate; tepals white tinged with faint rose; stamens included the outer filaments entire with triangular base, while the inner tricuspidate with the fertile cusp at the mid; style included and stigma capitate.

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Near Endemic. The native range of this species is Libya to N. Egypt.

Al-Jafarah Plain:

Reported from Tripolitania (Ras El-Ihudia) by Maire

Sirte Plains:

Reported from (112 km) W. Ageilla) by Maire

Benghazi Plain:

Benghazi 1922  Agedabia, Zuetina 1925

A l-Jabal Al-Akhader:

Wadi Derna 1887

Marmarica Plateau:

Tobruk 1883  Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930