| Erodium keithii Guitt. & Le Houer, it is an annual herb, caulescent, procumbent or ascending, beset with capitate, 3-4-cellcd glands and few unicellular, non-capitate glands. Leaves simple, basal sub orbicular, entire to 3-lobed, middle lobe 3-5-tobuled, lateral lobes 2-lobuled, and stipules membranous, ovate, ciliate on margins, acute, brown. Inflorescence 4-7-flowered umbel, bracts 3-6 free, lanceolate to ovate, ciliate on margins. Sepals lanceolate, 3-7-nerved, hirsute, marginally ciliate, with 1-2 mm long mucro at the apex. Petals bright red, sub equal, 3-nerved 1.5 times as long as sepals, claw glabrescent. Fertile filaments with violet anthers, antlerless filaments lanceolate, glabrous. Mericarps oblongish. 5-5.5 mm long, antrorsely hairy, apical pits without or with a very faint or inconspicuous furrow beneath, glabrous, beak 4-5 cm long, barbate. Life Form:Th, Flowering in: Jan-Feb, Vern:————, Phytochoria: Endemic , The native range of this species is Libya. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:372309-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/372309-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000676922, https://www.gbif.org/species/3827196, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/143631/erodium-keithii-guitt-le-hou-r |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Sirte Plains | Benghazi Plain | Jabal Nafusa |
| Sirte 1977 | Msus-Al-Ajramia zone 2004 | Jadoo 1977 Msallata (Shaafien) 2017 |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | ||
| Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 Gebel Akhder 2009 Wadi Om-El-Amaym 2019 Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2021 | ||
| 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 |
| Mohamed, A.H., Mosallam, H.A., Sergwa, S.S., Gibreel, M.A. (2021) Impact of Edaphic Factors on Vegetation Composition in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. Egypt. J. Bot., Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 191-201 (2021) https://ejbo.journals.ekb.eg/article_119404.html | Impact of Edaphic Factors 2021_compressed |
| El-farse, M.H. (2019) Study of the vegetation of Wadi Om-El-Amaym in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar region. Master Thesis- department of environmental science and engineering, Academy of post graduate studies, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic) | |
| Bahri, N.M. (2017) Identify, Limit and Determine the Vegetation Types of Wadi Ka’am Areas, Libya. Journal of Marine Sciences and Environmental Technologies-Volume (3) -Issue (2) (In Arabic) http://www.asmarya.edu.ly/journal2/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JMSET06-3-1-20171.pdf | وادي كعام ومناطق اخري 2017 |
| El-Darier, S.M. & El-Mogaspi, F.M. (2009) Ethno botany and Relative Importance of Some Endemic Plant Species at El-Jabal El-Akhdar Region (Libya). World Journal of Agricultural Sciences 5 (3): 353-360, 2009 ISSN 1817-3047, IDOSI Publications, 2009. https://bit.ly/3ANLWS1, http://www.idosi.org/wjas/wjas5(3)/16.pdf | Endemic Plant Species at El-Jabal El-Akhdar 2009 |
| El-Jetlawi A.O.(2004) Study of vegetation and soil seed bank of a range desert zone (Msus-Al-Ajramia), Master of Science Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Benghazi University, Benghazi, Libya (In Arabic) | |
| El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H.(2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://bit.ly/3VowJ3q, http://www.herbmedit.org/bocconea/16-1091.pdf | flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza 2003_compressed |
| Al-Hamadi R.I.(1999) Floristic and ecological study of Wadi Al-Agar, Master Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic) |
