| Geranium lucidum L., it is an annual herb, glabrescent, shiny, often reddish, odorless. Stems 10 to 30 cm, fragile. Leaves kidney-shaped orbicular, palmatifid, with 5 to 7 wedge-shaped lobes, obtuse, shallow, incised-crenate. Flowers bright pink rarely white, 1.5-2 cm across, quite small, biflorous peduncles, longer than the leaf. Calyx glabrous, pyramidal, with five very projecting angles, with erect sepals, constricted at the top, briefly awned, wrinkled crosswise. Petals entire, with a very long and glabrous tab. Stamens all fertile, filaments dilated and glabrous at the base. Mericarps c. 2.5 mm long, laterally compressed. longitudinally ridged, irregulady reticulate-rugose, sparsely uncinate hairy at the apex and base, beak up to 1 cm long, attenuate to 3-6 mm loog style. Seeds ± ellipsoid-oblong, 1.5-2 mm long, smooth. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Jun, Vern:————–, Phytochoria: ES+MED+IT, The native range of this species is Madeira to N. Africa, Europe to Central Asia and India. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:373275-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/373275-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000700774, https://www.gbif.org/species/2890560, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/143745/geranium-lucidum-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/506.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_geraniumlucidum.php, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/GERLUC/ |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Reported from Marawa to Faidia in Macchia, (50 km) from Faidia, Wadi Wardana, Wadi El-Kauf by Keith |
| 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 |
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