| Erodium gruinum (L.) L’Hér, it is an annual or biennial herb, ascending to erect up to 30 (-50) cm tall, sparsely relrorsc or patent hairy to glabrescent, with thick grooved shoots. Leaves radical and cauline, simple, rarely compound with up to 10 (-12) cm long, retrorse hairy, grooved petiole, lamina ovate to ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate. (1.5-) 3-10 (-12) x (0.5-) 1-5 (-6) cm. appressed hairy to glabrescent, radical leaves unlobed and crenate-dentate or pinnatipartite or pinnatisect into mostly 3(-5) crenate-dentate, triangular-ovate to ovate-oblong segments, the terminal segment largest, with 3-5 lobes. Cauline leaves short petioled, often more deeply pinnatisect, acutely toothed, sometimes with a pair of almost free leaflets at base, stipules lanceolate-ovate to broadly ovate, 5-10 (-12) x 3-6 (-18) mm, whitish-brown, glabrous to ciliolate on margins, acute-acuminate. Inflorescence (1-) 3-6-flowered, peduncles mostly longer than the subtending leaves, hirsute to glabrous rarely subglandulose. Flowers large, violet or blue-violet. 2.5-3.5 cm across, pedicels c. 1 cm long, later elongated up to 10 times. Bracts several, akin to stipules, free, pubescent to marginally ciliolate. Sepals oblong to obovate-oblong or ovate-elliptic, 8-10 x 4-5 mm, enlarging in fruit up to 15-20 x 7-8 mm. white membranous between conspicuously thick, green, appressed hairy to glabrescent nerves, with c. 2-7 mm long mucro at the apex. Petals broadly obovate, 15-20 (-25) x 8-10(-12) mm, glabrous at the base, Fertile and sterile filaments glabrous. Mericarps brownish, 10-15 mm long, antrorsely brownish-white haired, apical pits deep, eglandular and pitied within, each with a wide furrow beneath beak 6 (-11) cm long, thick, reddish-barbate internally, with 2-4 coils near base. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Feb-Apr, Vern:————–, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is E. Medit. to Iran. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:372275-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/372275-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000676879, https://www.gbif.org/species/9537188, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/143611/erodium-gruinum-l-l-h-r, http://www.flowersinisrael.com/Erodiumgruinum_page.htm, https://www.tilo-botanica.eu/espece-e-h/erodium-gruinum.html, https://botany.cz/cs/erodium-gruinum/ |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Benghazi Plain | Jabal Nafusa |
| El-Zawia 2015 | Qaminis-Benghazi road, Road betwen Al-Kuwayfyahm and Daryanah 1968 Garyounis 2016 Beach sand dunes in Karkurah 2021 | Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Marmarica Plateau | |
| (19,25 km_ S.E. Derna 1968 Above Derna on road to Martuba 1970 Zawia, Between Al Merj and Taknes,Shahat, (5 km) from Baida to Shahat, Baida, (55 km) from Baida to Al-Marj, (20 km) from Labrag, (35 km) from Lamluda 1972 Shahat 1973 Al-Ghareeba 1978 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 S. of AL-Marj 2011 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Wadi Haboon 2015 Between Derna and Ain Mara 2016 Wadi Om-El-Amaym 2019 | 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. (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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| Al-Fiqi, Abd al-Salam M., Abul-Qasim, R. (2015) Inventory of the vegetation cover surrounding Al-Zawiya University. The Libyan Journal of Science Volume 18, 2014/2015 .(In Arabic) https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/issue/view/24 | حصر الغطاء النباتي المحيط بجامعة الزاوية 2015 |
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| EL-Barasi, Y. M., Barrani, M. W., Abdelsalam, O. EL-Amrouni, N., Mohamad, F. (2011) Check list of flora and vegetation on south EL-Marj zone: south EL-Jabal EL-Akhadar. Libya. Annals of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara-International Journal of Engineering. Tome IX (Year 2011). Fascicule 3. ISSN 1584-2673, 141-146. https://bit.ly/3p7s6hV, http://annals.fih.upt.ro/pdf-full/2011/ANNALS-2011-3-24.pdf | flora and vegetation on south EL-Marj zone 2011 |
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