| Boerhavia elegans Choisy, it is a perennial herb, ± erect up to 1 m. Stems fleshy, becoming woody towards the base, puberulous, the nodes swollen, branches glabrescent, often glaucous. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 1–5×0.3–1 cm, the base cuneate, the apex rounded to acute, often clustered on short shoots, puberulous. Inflorescence a large diffuse terminal panicle, the flowers solitary on very slender peduncles appearing as pedicels ± 6-20 mm long. Perianth 1.5–4.5 mm long, upper portion white to pink, 0.5–3.5 mm. long. Anthers (2–) 3, slightly exserted. Ovary 0.5–1 mm. Anthocarp narrowly ± ellipsoid, 3–4 ×1–1.5 mm, 5-ribbed, rounded at the apex, ± glabrous on the ridges, puberulous to glabrescent in the grooves. Life Form: Ch , Flowering in:—————-, Vern:—————–, Phytochoria: SS+SZ , The native range of this species is Niger to Arabian Peninsula, Iran to W. India. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:604185-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/604185-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000567940, https://www.gbif.org/species/7327190, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/18359/boerhavia-elegans-choisy, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.flora.ftea003980, https://botany.cz/cs/boerhavia-elegans/ |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Jabal Al-Uwinat |
| Jabal Al-Uweinat region 2008 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
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| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Alzwai, A.M.H. (2008) A study of the vegetation covers of the Jabal Al-Uweinat region in Libya. Master Thesis – Botany Department – College of Science – Garyounis University – Libya. (In Arabic) |
