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Cadaba farinosa Forssk., it is a shrubs, much branched with slender to twiggy tangled branches, up to 5 m high; young twigs farinose with small white waxy sessile scales, becoming glabrous with age. Leaves petiolate, oblong-ovate or elliptic-oblong with more or less rounded apex; blade 5-50 mm long, 3-30 mm broad., Life Form: N.Ph,   Flowering in:——–,   Vern: ———- ,   Phytochoria: SZ, The native range of this species is Sahara to Tropical Africa, Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan to India.,  Notes: Wild in Libya.

For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:146196-1https://www.ipni.org/n/146196-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000578357, https://www.gbif.org/species/3054234, https://www.feedipedia.org/node/174,https://botany.cz/cs/cadaba-farinosa/  https://openherbarium.org/taxa/index.php?taxon=Cadaba%20farinosa, https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Cadaba+farinosa   https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/capparaceae/cadaba-farinosa,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaba_farinosa

 

Distribution in Libya
Tibesti area
Reported from Tibesti by Ozenda

 

Bibliographic references:  
First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:  
Ali, S.I. & Jafri, S.M.H. (1977) Flora of Libya, Capparaceae Vol. (12) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.
Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses , Sorted by Newest: pdf files
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