Flora

Chenopodium vulvaria L.

Common Name: Effena

Family: Amaranthaceae

Flowering Time: Apr-Aug.

General Appearance

Chenopodium vulvaria L., it is an annual up to (4-)10-65 cm, procumbent, much-branched, grey-farinose, smelling of decaying fish. Leaves up to 2.5 (-3) x 2.3 (-2.7) cm, rhombic to ovate, entire or with an acute angle on each margin at the broadest part, more or less densely grey-farinose beneath. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, small, leafy. Sepals 5, not keeled. Seeds 1-1.5 mm in diameter, brownish-black, obtusely keeled.

Life Form

Phytochoria

S-Cosm. The native range of this species is Europe to SW. Siberia and Pakistan, Macaronesia to N. Africa and Sahara.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain:

Tripoli 1968 El-Zawia 2015

Zliten-Misurata Plain:

Kaam area 2005 Misurata 2006,2008

Jabal Nafusa:

Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020

Al-Jabal Al-Akhader:

(5 km) from Baida to Shahat 1972 Wadi Al-Agar 1999

Tibesti area:

Reported from Tibesti by Keith

Notes

Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:165311-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/165311-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000601914, https://www.gbif.org/species/3083932, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/129682/chenopodium-vulvaria-l, https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=20637#null, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/263.html, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=19212, https://maltawildplants.com/AMAR/Chenopodium_vulvaria.php, https://www.apatita.com/herbario/especie.php?id=Chenopodium_vulvaria, https://botany.cz/cs/chenopodium-vulvaria/, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_chenopodiumvulvaria.php, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenopodium_vulvaria, https://www.i-flora.com/en/image-search/phylogenetic-tree/art/showgallery/chenopodium-vulvaria.html

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:

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://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sh-Hoob-El-Ahmir, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf, https://zenodo.org/records/3931997

Al-Fiqi, Abd al-Salam, M., 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

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)

Al-Dana, S. M. M. (2006) Taxonomic study of wild flower plants in some areas of Misrata. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Misurata University (7 October previously) Misurata, Libya. (In Arabic)

Al-Shif, N. S. (2005) a taxonomic study of the plants of the Kaam region. Master Thesis, College of Science, Al-Marqab University, Al-Khums, Libya. (In Arabic)

Al-Hamadi R.I. (1999) Floristic and ecological study of wadi Al-Agar, Master Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic)