| Geranium robertianum L., it is an annual or biennial herb, polymorphic plant, hairy-glandular, often reddish, with a fetid odor. Stems 10 to 50 cm, fragile. Leaves triangular-pentagonal, palmatized, with 3 to 5 petiolulate and pinnatifid segments. Flowers bright pink. 2-2.5 cm across, biflorous peduncles, longer than the leaf. Sepals erect, constricted at the top, mucronate, hairy-glandular, not wrinkled crosswise. Entire petals, twice as long as the calyx, with a very long and glabrous tab. Stamens with glabrous filaments, with red anthers. Mericarps 2.5-3 mm long. separating without styles beak, with 2 distinct transverse ridges above, and reticulately weakly ridged below, hairy on ridges to glabrescent, beak 12-19 mm long (including style), glabrous. Seed ± ellipsoid, c. 2 mm long, smooth, reddish-brown. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Apr, Vern:—————-, Phytochoria: Cosm, The native range of this species is Temp. Northern Hemisphere, Macaronesia, N. Africa to Ethiopia. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:109269-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/109269-2, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000701246, https://www.gbif.org/species/2890668, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/10824/geranium-robertianum-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/508.html, https://www.maltawildplants.com/GERN/Geranium_robertianum.php, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/geranium/robertianum/, https://dryades.units.it/stagnisardi_en/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&id=2831&num=3726, https://herbaria.plants.ox.ac.uk/bol/plants400/Profiles/GH/Geranium, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geranium_robertianum |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Gefara plain 2010 | Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 | Upper stream of Wadi El-Kauf 1968 Below ruins of Shahat, Gasr Libya 1970 Wadi El-Kauf, Wadi Mahbool 1973 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 Wadi (Valley) Stowah region 2007 Shahat-Susa 2016 Wadi Zaza, Wadi Al-Ager, Wadi Ras Al-Hilal 2017 Wadi Om-El-Amaym 2019 Wadi Al-Kouf 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 |
| Al-Traboulsi, M. & Alaib, M.A. (2021) A Survey of medicinal plants of Wadi Al-Kouf in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. NAT. CROAT, VOL. 30. No 2. (389-404), ZAGREB. December 31, 2021. https://hrcak.srce.hr/269442 / https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/390805 | Medicinal plants of Wadi Al-Kouf 2021 |
| 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) | |
| Mukassabi, T.A., Thomas,P.A., ELMogasapi, A.(2017) Medicinal plants in Cyrenaica, Libya: existence and extinction. Biological Diversity and Conservation – 10/2 (2017) 183-192. https://bit.ly/44GKtLd, https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/4064/ | Medicinal plants in Cyrenaica 2017 |
| Hegazy, A.; Kabiel, H.; AlRowaily, S.; Lovett-Doust,L. and AlBorki, A. (2016) Plant communities and reproductive phenology in mountainous regions of northern Libya. Journal of Forestry Research. July 2017, Volume 28, Issue 4, pp 741–761. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11676-016-0345-8, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmad-Hegazy-2 |
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| Al-Masalati, N. A. A. (2013) Plant diversity across the altitudes of the Msallata National Park Reserve Mountains. Master Thesis. Botany Department-College of Science-University of Benghazi-Libya. (In Arabic) | |
| Abu Ajila, A. M. K. & Ahmed, A. N. (2010) A study of the quantitative characteristics of vegetation covers in Al-Jafara plain. Libya. African J. Biol. Sci., 6 (3):111-121(2010) ISSN 1687-4870. (In Arabic) http://www.aasd.byethost13.com/Volumes/aasdj6(3)2010/111-121.pdf?i=1 | سهل الجفارة 2010 |
| Nawras, A. M. B. (2007) A study of the vegetation cover in the Wadi (Valley) Stowah region. Master Thesis. Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University-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) |
