| Geranium tuberosum L., it is a perennial plant, finely pubescent, with a tuberous, subglobose stem. Stems 20-40 cm, erect, slender, bare up to the bifurcations. Leaves polygonal-suborbicular, palmatized, with 5-7 lanceolate segments, pennatipartite, with entire or toothed lobes. Flowers purple or pinkish-purple, 1.5-2.5 (-3) cm across, quite large, in a corymb, uni-biflorous peduncles, much longer than the leaf, fruiting pedicels erect. Sepals spreading, mucronate, hairy. Heart-shaped petals, 1-2 times longer than the calyx, with a short, ciliate tab. Stamen filaments ciliated internally, filaments purple or pinkish-purple, not or slightly dilated at the base, the outer whorl glabrous, the inner long haired. Mericarps 3-4 mm long, pubescent, not wrinkled, beak 1-2 cm long (including c. 0.5 mm long style), hirsute. Seeds ellipsoid-subglobosc 2-2.5 mm long, brown, punctate or smooth. Life Form: G, Flowering in: Feb- May , Vern:———-, Phytochoria: MED+IT, The native range of this species is W. Central Medit. to Iran and S. Turkmenistan. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:373774-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/373774-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000701508, https://www.gbif.org/species/2890791, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/143768/geranium-tuberosum-l, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/GERTUB/, https://biodiversitycyprus.blogspot.com/2016/03/geranium-tuberosum-l-cyprus.html, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/17534.html, http://e-ecodb.bas.bg/rdb/en/vol1/Gertuber.html |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Gharian 1967 | Sidi Abu-Ras 2017 |
| 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-Zerbi, A. K. & Al-Aib, M.A. (2017) Study of vegetation cover in Sidi Bouras region, Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering JESE, VOL. 1, No. 1, January 2017. (In Arabic) http://jese.uoa.edu.ly/JESE_V1N1/JESE_V1N1P11.pdf |
