General Appearance
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.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
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
For more information
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:527671-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/527671-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000755766, https://www.gbif.org/species/2857016, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/155812/allium-barthianum-asch-schweinf, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.g00168359, https://identify.plantnet.org/the-plant-list/species/Allium%20barthianum%20Asch.%20&%20Schweinf./data
First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:
Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1977) Flora of Libya, Alliaceae Vol. (33) 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
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