Damasonium alisma Mill.

Common Name: ——-
Family: Alismataceae
Flowering Time: Mar-Apr
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General Appearance

Damasonium alisma Mill., it is a helophyte, annual plant up to 5 to 30 cm, glabrous with fibrous root. Stems bare, erect or spreading. Leaves all radical, long petiolate, oval or oblong, rounded or slightly heart-shaped at the base, trinerved. Inflorescence with 1 to 2 (3) pauciflorous whorls. Hermaphrodite flowers with white or pink petals of variable size (0 to 10 mm). Fruits, star-shaped follicles at maturity with 2 to 5 seeds.

Leaves

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Flowers

Hermaphrodite flowers with white or pink petals of variable size (0 to 10 mm).

Fruits

Fruits, star-shaped follicles at maturity with 2 to 5 seeds.

Life Form

Hy

Phytochoria

MED+ES, The native range of this species is Europe to Siberia. Notes: Wild in Libya.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:

Al-Marj 1978

Notes

Wild in Libya.

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1980) Flora of Libya, Alismataceae Vol. (85) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

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