| Glinus lotoides L., it is an annual herb, stellate-tomentose, branched at the base, up to 36 cm tall, decumbent to ascending. Leaves semi whorled, obovate-spathulate, variable in size (6-18 x 7-13 mm), petioles 4 mm or less. Flowers hermaphrodite, calyx 6 mm long, and petals absent. Fruit is a capsule, 5 mm long and 3-5 mm wide, pentagonal, and many seeded. Seeds are 0.5 mm, almost kidney shaped, finely tuberculate, and brown coloured with large appendages. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: May-Seb, Vern:—————, Phytochoria: Tro. & S.Tro. The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical Old World. Notes: Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327312-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/327312-2, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000703708, https://www.gbif.org/species/3084616, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148964/glinus-lotoides-l, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.flora.fz4018, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=572, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=500572 |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Jabal Nafusa |
| Wadi Al-Mgenin 2015 | Kaam area 2005 | Wadi Kaam dam, Al-Khums, flooded banks of the dam 2015 |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Fezzan area | |
| Wadi Ashomer, southeast of Taknis, Jabal al Akhdar 2015 | Wadi Imrawin, Messak, south of Ubari 2015 | |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
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| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Erteeb, F.B & Sharashi, O. (2015) New Records for the Flora of Libya. The Libyan Journal of Science (An International Journal): Volume 18, 2014/2015. https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/issue/view/24 | New Records for the Flora of Libya 2015 |
| Al-Shf, N. S. (2005) a taxonomic study of the plants of the Kaam region. Master Thesis, College of Science, Al-Marqab University, Al-Khums, Libya. (In Arabic) |
