| Euphorbia sulcata Lens ex Loisel., it is a small annual plant up to 3-10 cm, glabrous, with erect or lying-ascending stems. Leaves very close together or imbricate, small, oblong in corners, truncate or emarginate-mucronate, or the upper ones obtuse. Umbel small, with 2-4 short rays. Bracts acute ovate-lanceolate. Crescent glands. Capsule with very open furrows, with obtusely keeled shells and finely roughened on the back. Seeds ovoid-hexagonal, truncated, whitish, with 6 deep and continuous longitudinal furrows, wattled. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Spt, Vern:———–, Phytochoria: MED, he native range of this species is Canary Islands, W. & Central Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya/
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:348404-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/348404-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000964960, https://www.gbif.org/species/3065910, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/143228/euphorbia-sulcata-loisel, https://atlasflore04.org/detail.php?zoom_fleur=67554, http://www.menudanatura.com/2014/04/euphorbia-sulcata-lens-ex-loisel.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_euphorbiasulcata.php, https://www.biodiversidadvirtual.org/herbarium/BFI-Euphorbia-sulcata-Lens-ex-Loisel.-cat8280.html |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Jabal Nafusa | Marmarica Plateau |
| Gharian, Tarhuna, Misallata 1913 | Marmarica, Tobruk 1918 Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1982) Flora of Libya, Euphorbiaceae Vol. (89) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Saaed, M.W.B., EL-Barasi, Y.M. & Rahil, R.O. (2021) An updated checklist and quantitative analysis of the Marmarica Plateau flora, in the north-eastern part of Libya. Phytotaxa 509 (1): 001-055. https://www.mapress.com/j/pt/, https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.509.1.1 | An updated Marmarica Plateau flora 2021 |
