Flora

Huphaene thebaica (L.) Mart., it is a tree, up to 20 m high with branched trunk. Leaves in a terminal crown on each branch, palmate. Flowers small, yellow. Fruit sub rounded. brown, glossy, with translucent coloured pits, 7-8 cm long and almost as broad.

Fezzan area:

Reported from Tedferri Oasis south of Morzuk

Wild in Libya.

Link of images  https://www.ksanature.com/plants/hyphaene_thebaica/,  https://ntbg.org/database/plants/detail/hyphaene-thebaica

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:667540-1,   https://www.ipni.org/n/667540-1,   https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000216304,  https://www.gbif.org/species/7931200 ,    https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/33173/hyphaene-thebaica-l-mart ,  https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.flora.flos004734,   https://www.hyphaene.org/index.php/species-and-synonyms/hyphaene-thebaica,  https://www.ksanature.com/plants/hyphaene_thebaica/,  https://ntbg.org/database/plants/detail/hyphaene-thebaica,  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-31885-7_32,  https://ntbg.org/database/plants/detail/hyphaene-thebaica,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphaene_thebaica