| Geranium dissectum L., it is an annual herb, covered with spreading hairs. Stems 10 to 40 cm, erect or ascending. Leaves orbicular, palmatized with 5 to 7 segments cut almost to the petiole into linear lobes. Flowers pinkish-purple to white, 8-12 mm across, small, biflorous peduncles, shorter than or equal to the leaf, pedicels barely longer than the calyx. Sepals spreading, ridged, not curved at the edges, with spreading, glandular hairs, Petals emarginate, equal to the calyx, with a short and ciliate tab. Stamens with ciliated filaments inferiorly. Mericarps 2-3 mm long, neither transversely ridged, not wrinkled, densely parent hairy, hairs cglandular, beak 8-12 mm long, patently glandular nor eglandular hairy. Seeds subglobose, c. 1.5 mm in diameter, pitted-reticulate. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Feb-Apr, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: S.Cosm, The native range of this species is Europe to W. & Central Asia, N. Africa. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30210528-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/30210528-2, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000700368, https://www.gbif.org/species/2890040, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/10771/geranium-dissectum-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/505.html, http://www.flowersinisrael.com/Geraniumdissectum_page.htm |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Roman aquaduct near Labrag 1970 Wadi Zaza 2003 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
