| Erodium chium (L.) Willd., it is an annual or biennials, usually caulescent, up 10 50 cm tall herb, beset with deflexed hairs on ascending branches. Leaves up to 8 cm long, with deflexed hairy, petiole, lamina ovate to broadly ovate-oblong, 2-5 (-6) x 1.5-4 (-5) cm, cordate at the base, lower shallowly pinnatifid, upper tripartite or tripinnatisect, Lobes crenate-serrate, pprcssed whitish hairy, acute. Stipules ovate-oblong, whitish-brown. Inflorescence 2-8-flowered, peduncle longer than the subtending leaves, deflexed hairy to glabrescent. Flowers purplish-pink, 1-1.8 cm across, pedicels up to 2 cm long, glabrescent, bracts 3 or more, ovate, 2-3 mm long, whitish-brown, acute. Sepals ovate-oblong, 4-5 mm long, enlarged up to 7 mm in fruit, hairy outside, with c. 1 mm long, mucro at the apex. Petals obovate, 5-9 mm long, claw ciliate. Staminodes and fertile filaments ciliate at the base. Mericarps brown, 4-4.5 mm long, antrorsely hairy, apical pits eglandular, without furrow beneath, beak, 3-3.5 (-4) cm long, barbate. Life Form: Th, Flowering in:—————–, Vern:—————-, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Macaronesia, Medit. to Eritrea. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:372210-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/372210-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000676788, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/10732/erodium-chium-l-willd, https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/96893/tab/fiche, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=502836 |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Tripolitania | Benghazi Plain | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Reported from Tripolitania by Keith | Reported from Benghazi by Keith | Reported from Derna by Keith |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1978) Flora of Libya, Geraniaceae Vol. (63) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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