| Erodium ciconium (L.) L’Hér., it is an annual or biennial, procumbent to erect, caulescent, up to 60 cm tall, branched herb with deflexed and glandular hairs on furrowed stem and shoots. Leaves simple with up to 15 cm long, appresscd hairy petioles, lamina triangular-ovate to ovate-elliptic in outline, 1.5-10 x 1-7 cm, deeply uni or bi pinnatipartite or sect into ovate-lanceolate or linear-oblong, c. 1 cm or more long, crenate or incised, appressed hairy segments, rachis winged, dentate or lobed between the main segments; stipules ovate to lanceolate-ovate, 5-10 x 3-6 mm, brownish, acute-acuminate, pubescent. Inflorescence (2-) 3-6 (-8)-flowered, peduncle up to 12 cm long, mostly longer than the subtending leaf, angular, deflexed hairy. Flowers purple or purplish-violet, 1.5-2 cm across, pedicel 1-2 cm long, glandular hairy, bracts several, free, akin to stipules, 2-5 mm long, free, hairy. Sepals oblong, 5-10 x 2-3 mm, enlarging up to 15 x 5.5 mm in fruit, externally 5-nerved and glandular hairy, membranous margined, acute with 2-4 mm long mucro. Petals obovate, 8-10 x 2-4 mm, claw short, hairy. Fertile filaments dilated, ciliate. Sterile filaments lanceolate-ovate, ciliate-glabrescent. Mericarps greyish-black, 8-12 (-15) mm long, subpatcnt whitish hairy, apical pits narrow, deep and glandular hairy, each without basal furrow, beak stout, thick, (5-) 6-10 (-12) cm long, barbate. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-May, Vern: Khlal el Ghula, Phytochoria: ES+MED+IT , The native range of this species is Canary Islands, S. Central Europe, Medit. to Pakistan. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:372217-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/372217-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000676794, https://www.gbif.org/species/9429152, https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/96894/tab/fiche, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/erocio/, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=2962, https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Erodium+cicutarium, https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/erodium_cicutarium.htm |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains | Benghazi Plain |
| Misurata 2008 | Sirte 2015 | Garyounis 2016 |
| Jabal Nafusa | Marmarica Plateau | |
| (7 km) befor Zintan 1974 | Al-Tamimi to Om Razum 1970 From Tobruk to Egyptian Border 1999 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Al-Maqsabi, A., Al-Tira, F., Al-Rubaie, G. (2016) A study of the phenotypic characteristics of some species of the genus (Erodium L’Hér-Geraniaceae) in Libya. Book of the Fourth Scientific Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development in arid and semi-arid areas. Pages (718-730). (20-22) November-2016. Ajdabiya University- Libya.(In Arabic) | |
| 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 | Plant Cover at Surt Region 2015 |
| Baayo, Kh. A. (2008): Floristic composition and Phytochorological Analysis of Misratah area, Libya, Assiut Univ.J. of Botany 37(2), P-P. 33-78 (2008) | |
| EL-Habony, A.M. (1999) Vegetation and flora of a sector along Mediterranean cost of Libya from Tobruk to Egyptian border, M.Sc. Thesis, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic) |
