| Erodium touchyanum Delile ex Godr., it is an annual herbs, very hairy, 6–13 (–37) cm high. Leaves pinnate with leaflets ordinarily bipinnatisect. Umbels provided with 1–8 flowers. Sepals densely glandular-pubescent, especially towards the base, provided with a terminal mucron that turns purple in fruiting; petals pink, almost always tinged purple at the base. Pale orange pollen. Mericarps provided with short, erect hairs, whitish and amber in color; broad glandular foveolae with a single notable and glandular infrafoveolar groove. Edge with a characteristic tuft of long hairs that originates at its base. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Jun, Vern:–———-, Phytochoria: SA, The native range of this species is Canary Islands (Fuertaventura), N. Africa to Iran. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:372464-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/372464-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000677110, https://www.gbif.org/species/3828938, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/10753/erodium-touchyanum-delile, https://www.atlasdesemillasdecanarias.org/atlas/ficha.php?ID=82, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/EROTOU/ |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Benghazi Plain | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Daryanah 1972 | (55 km) from Baida to Al-Marj, (2 km) from Faidia, (16 km) from Labrag, (30 km) from Lamluda, (20 km) from Taknes, (20 km) from Al-Gaigab on Derna-Martouba road 1972 Wadi Zaza 2003 Al-Mansora 2013 Valley Jarjr-oma 2013 |
| 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 |
| Abusaief, H. M. A. (2013) Life forms and rangeland for many habitats of Jarjar oma in Al-Jabal Al- Akhdar on Mediterranean Sea. Journal of American Science 2013;9(5) http://www.jofamericanscience.org/journals/am-sci/am0905/029_17747am0905_236_249.pdf | Jarjar oma in Al-Jabal Al- Akhdar 2013 |
| Abusaief, H. M. A. and Dakhil, A. H. (2013) The floristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar- Libya. New York Science Journal 2013; 6(5). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Huda-Abusaief | Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2013 |
| 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 |
