Flora

Suaeda maritima (L.) Dumort.

Common Name: ——-

Family: Amaranthaceae

Flowering Time: Jul-oct.

General Appearance

Suaeda maritima (L.) Dumort., it is an annual plant 10-50 cm, glabrous, glaucous green or reddish, with herbaceous stems, hard at the base, erect or spreading-diffuse; leaves numerous, the stems elongated (1-3 cm), linear-demi cylindrical, obtuse or acute, enlarged at the base, opaque, glaucescent; the smaller florals protruding from the glomeruli with 2-3 flowers; fruiting perianth globose-depressed, with obtuse-ovate lobes, obscurely keeled dorsally; seed ordinarily horizontal, shiny.

Life Form

Phytochoria

S-Cosm. The native range of this species is Central & E. Canada to E. U.S.A., Europe to W. Siberia, Macaronesia, N. Africa to Indo-China.

Distribution in Libya

Sirte Plains:

Sirte 2015, 2016

Notes

Wild in Libya, it grows to about 35 cm in salt marshes.

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1071140-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/1071140-2, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000437616, https://www.gbif.org/species/3083541, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/26358/suaeda-maritima-l-dumort, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/4236.html, https://www.maltawildplants.com/AMAR/Suaeda_maritima.php, https://www.orchid-nord.com/Flore-France/Amaranthaceae/Suaeda%20maritima/Suaeda-maritima.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_suaedamaritima.php, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/suaeda/maritima/, https://medplants.blogspot.com/2013/02/suaeda-maritima-canyametes-nirumari.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suaeda_maritima, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=516, https://www.i-flora.com/en/image-search/phylogenetic-tree/art/showgallery/suaeda-maritima.html

Bibliographic References

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

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

Elsayed, N. (2016) Relationship between Vegetation and Soil Seed Bank at Protected Versus Unprotected Sites at Coastal Habitats in Libya.CATRINA (2016), 15 (1): 59-68. https://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?user=mSAskW0AAAAJ&hl=en , https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18337_76652686b5c99f5fd479aebab87fbcb4.pdf

Elsayed M. A. N. (2015) Floristic Composition of the Plant Cover at Surt Region in Libya. Catrina (2015), 12 (1): 63-71-2010 By the Egyptian society for environmental SCIENCES. https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18403_37c687e375b9144800a15704e68ebad7.pdf