| Gladiolus byzantinus Mill., it is a tuberous geophyte herb with underground deeply seated bulbose corm covered by thick dark brown fibers. Scape leafy, 35-70 cm tall. Leaves 3-5, sword- shaped to linear, up to 30 cm long, green in colour. Inflorescence cymose with many flowers arranged on one side of the axis. Flowers sessile, 4-5 cm long, rose- to red-violaceous, spathe green, narrowly lanceolate, c. 3 cm long. Perianth segments ± equal, c. 2.5 cm long, connate below. Stamens c. 3.2 cm long, filament filiform, anthers linear c. 1 cm long. Style thick, as long as stamens. Capsule, oblong to ovoid. Seeds broadly winged compressed, c. 1 cm long, reddish in colour. Life Form: G Flowering in: Mar-Apr, Vern: Sif El-Ghrab, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this hybrid is Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:437331-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/437331-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000789693, https://www.gbif.org/species/2750100, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/220445/gladiolus-byzantinus-mill, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=3549, https://dryades.units.it/Roma/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&id=7074&num=7667 |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Tripoli, Bengasher, Sog El-Sabit 1976 | Asaba, Gharian 1974 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 | Barce plain 1958 Al-Merj 1978 Wadi Zaza 2003 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Wadi Haboon 2015 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1980) Flora of Libya, Iridaceae Vol. (81) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Mahklouf, M.H., Sherif, A.S., Betelmal, A.G. (2020) Floristic Study and Species Diversity of Msallata-Garaboulli Province in Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology Volume 7 / Issue 3 ISSN: 2348-7313. Journal homepage: http://scienceq.org/Journals/JABZ.php, https://bit.ly/3LgL0KQ, https://scienceq.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JABZV7I304.pdf | Msallata-Garaboulli Province in Libya 2020 |
| El-Rabiai, G.T. & Al tira, M. (2015) Checklist of the Flora of Wadi Haboon at AI Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). International Journal of Pharmacy & Life Sciences 6(8-9): Aug-Sep, 2015:4661-4665] Coden (USA): IJPLCP ISSN: 0976-7126 http://uob.edu.ly/assets/uploads/pagedownloads/27a3a-wadi-haboon.pdf | Wadi Haboon at AI Jabal AI Akhdar 2015 |
| El-Mokasabi, F M. (2014) Floristic Composition and Traditional Uses of Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 14 (8): 685-697, 2014, ISSN 1818-769,IDOSI Publications,2014 DOI:10. 5829/idosi. aejaes. 2014.14.08.12375. https://bit.ly/3VtCvAA, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/441b/23b83960f007044aca94e26f5c6b170fe102.pdf | Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf 2014 |
| 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) | |
| 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 |
