| Erodium moschatum (L.) L’Hér., it is an annual or biennial herb, more or less hairy-glandular, with a strong musk odor. Stems 10-40 cm, robust, spreading-ascending. Leaves long, pinnately shaped, with spaced segments, ovate, incised-toothed, sub etiolate. Lilac-red flowers, 4-8 in umbels on long peduncles, bracteoles ovate-acute, not acuminate. Sepals briefly mucronate. Petals equal to or slightly exceeding the calyx, equal, entire, filaments of the stamens glabrous, the fertile ones dilated and bidentate at the base. Beak 3 4 cm long, edges at 8-10 turns. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Feb-May , Vern:—————-, Phytochoria: Cosm, The native range of this species is Macaronesia, W. Europe, Medit. to Iran and Ethiopia. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:372354-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/372354-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000676987, https://www.gbif.org/species/9419993, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/10736/erodium-moschatum-l-l-h-r, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2313.html, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/EROMOS/, https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/erodium_moschatum.htm, https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/96925/tab/fiche |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Benghazi Plain | Jabal Nafusa |
| Tripoli 1976 Al-Hdaba Treatment Plant Tripoli 2016 | Msus-Al-Ajramia zone 2004 Wadi El-Ghattara 2010 Between Slouk and Al-Abiar 2016 Garyounis, Gardena, Wadi Al-Bab, Boutraba, Al-Aqouriyah, Deriana 2016 Wadi El-Enaghar 2021 | Gharian 1974 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | ||
| (19,25 km) S.E. Derna 1968 Shahat to Faidia 1970 Shahat 1973 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 Al-Mansora 2013 Valley Jarjr-oma 2013 Al-Bakour, between Derna and Ain Mara, Al-Fatih 2016 Wadi Zaza 2017 Al-Abiar (Sidi Amohamed forest) 2020 Ain Mara 2020 | ||
| Bibliographic references: | |
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| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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