Stoibrax dichotomum (L.) Raf

Family: Apiaceae

General Appearance

Stoibrax dichotomum (L.) Raf /Homotypic Synonyms: Brachyapium dichotomum (L.) Maire, it is an annual herb, up to 15 cm tall, slender, with or without odour of celery, ± dichitomously branched. Lower leaves 2-3-pinnatisccl, with 3-10 mm long, linear lanceolate to linear, acute lobes; petioles of upper leaves with wide membranous margins. Rays 4-8, filiform, minutely scabrid to glabrous. Bracts and bractcoles absent. Flowers white to pinkish. Fruit c. 1 mm, broadly cordate or reniform, densely papillose-scabrid to almost glabrous.

Life Form

Th

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is Central & SE. Spain

Distribution in Libya

Benghazi Plain:

Roported from Benghazi by Durand & Barratte  Wadi El-Ghattara 2010

Al-Jabal Al-Akhader:

Wadi Derna 1968  Marawa 1973  Wadi Haboon 2015

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1985) Flora of Libya, Apiaceae Vol. (117) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.

Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:

El-Rabiai, G.T. & Al tira, M. (2015) Checklist of the Flora of Wadi Haboon at AI Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). International Journal of Pharmacy & Life Sciences 6(8-9): Aug-Sep, 2015:4661-4665] Coden (USA): IJPLCP ISSN: 0976-7126. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Munay-Alteerah https://www.researchgate.net/publication/292919013_Checklist_of_the_Flora_of_Wadi_Haboonat_AI_Jabal_AI_Akhdar_Cyrenaica_Libya

El-Rabiai, G.T., Al tira, F.M., Lamlom, S.H. (2010) Preliminary Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. Garyounis University Press Journal of Science and Its Applications Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 39-47, December 2010. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Wz8jpkIAAAAJ&hl=ar, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ALTsoucAAAAJ&hl=en,   https://journals.uob.edu.ly/index.php/sjuob/issue/view/71

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