Flora

Atriplex coriacea Forssk.

Common Name: Gatf

Family: Amaranthaceae

Flowering Time: Auq-Nov

General Appearance

Atriplex coriacea Forssk., it is a shrub, robust, decumbent to sub erect, closely torncntose of yellowish-white appearance. Leaves alternate, ovate or oblong, thick, coriaceous, entire, sub sessile or shortly petioled, with rounded to tapering base, obtuse at apex, up to 2.5 cm long. Flowers mixed in glomerules, arranged in terminal or axillary panicles; male flowers with 5 tepals, 5 stamens and a pistillodc; bracteoles of female flower furfuraceous, whitish, usually ± square with 3, irregular teeth above and tubercles on the faces in fruiting conditions; seed lenticular, vertical, c. 1.5 mm in diam., brown-maroon. obtuse at margin.

Life Form

N.Ph

Phytochoria

MED+SA. The native range of this species is N. Africa to Arabian Peninsula.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain:

Tripoli 1976 Bir Aiad, (32 km) after Bir Al-Ghanum 1977

Marmarica Plateau:

Ras Atteen 1972 (24 km) befor Al-Tamimi on Way to Tobruk 1977 From Tobruk to Egyptian Border 1999

Jabal Nafusa:

Al Ghazayea, between Nalut and Wazen 1977

Notes

Wild in Libya.

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:163730-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/163730-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000555939, https://www.gbif.org/species/3760595, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/26637/atriplex-coriacea-forssk, https://www.floramaroccana.fr/atriplex-coriacea.html, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi, http://www.plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=48960&uhd=0&mobile=3, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.bm000910464

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Chenopodiaceae Vol. (58) 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-Habony MEE 1999. Vegetation and flora of a sector along Mediterranean Coast of Libya from Tobruk to Egyptian border. MSc. Thesis. Department of Botany. Faculty of Science. Benghazi University. Benghazi. Libya.