Searsia tripartita (Ucria) Moffett

Common Name: Ijdari
Family: Anacardiaceae
Flowering Time: Oct-Jan

General Appearance

Dioecious shrub, 1-2 m tall, with much branched stem bearing twisted, glabrous, brown and spiny branches.

Leaves

Leaves glabrous, ternate, the leaflets sessile, up to 10-15 (-30) x 3-10 mm, oblanceolate or cuneate-obovate, entire or 2-3-toothed

Flowers

minute in small panicles. Calyx 5-lobed. Petals 5, ovate, pale green.

Fruits

Drupes dark or reddish brown, glossy, glabrous, somewhat globose and flattened. The fruits are initially reddish green then blackish when ripe,

Life Form

Ph

Phytochoria

MED+SA, The native range of this species is Sicilia, Sahara to Arabian Peninsula.

Distribution in Libya

  • Al-Jafarah Plain: Jafara Plain (Wadi Ghado) 2015
  • Benghazi Plain:Wadi El-Ghattara 2010 Deryanah 2011 Wadi El-Enaghar 2021
  • Zliten-Misurata Plain: Leptus Megna 2004 Leptus Magna 2017
  • Jabal Nafusa: (7 km)from Shakshuk 1976 Wadi Boraghwa, Kabao 1975 Al-Ghazaya to Wazzen,Kabao 1977 Msallata 1978 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Gasar Akhiar, Ghanima 2016 Msallata (Shaafien) 2017 Al-Assaba 2018 Tarhuna (Terghlat, Msabha) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 Wadi Kaam (Dam & lake, Main course) 2022
  • Sirte Plains: (1,2km) E.Bugrein 1967 (1km) E.Bugrein 1975
  • Al-Jabal Al-Akhader: Al-Gubba 1967 El-Kauf area 1984 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 El-Hamamah to Biada 2003 El-Bakur 2007 Birccess,Al-Dercya 2011 Valley Jarjr-oma 2013 Wadi El-Shees 2014 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Between Labrag and Shahat 2014 Barce, Al-Merj 2016 Wadi Al-Agar 2017 Assdod 2018 Wadi Om-El-Amaym 2019 From Zawiet Tamula to Al-Manarh, From Lustata to Beshtaya 2019 Al-Teneen area northwest of Al-Marj 2020 Wadi Al-Kouf 2021.
  • Marmarica Plateau: Wadi Al-Ramlah 1967 (2 km) befor Al-Tamimi 1977 Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002 Dafna region (Tobruk to Msaid) 2008
  • Al-Qibla area: Wadi Nesma region 2009 Wadis South of Mizda 2013

Notes

Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.

Bibliographic References

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