| Ammannia senegalensis Lam., it is an annual, erect or procumbent, hygrophilous, polymorpbic herb, up to 60 cm tall. Stem usually slender, wiry, quadrangular or narrowly winged. Leaves opposite, lanceolate to linear, sessile, auriculate and amplexicaul at the base, up to 5 cm long. Flowers in pedunculate axillary umbellate cymes, sub sessile. Petals 4 or absent, pink. caducous. Stamens 4. Capsule globose, almost double the lengtht of calyx. Life Form: Hy, Flowering in:—————, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: Pal , The native range of this species is Africa. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30256130-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/30256130-2, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000531090, https://www.gbif.org/species/7122782, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148670/ammannia-senegalensis-lam, https://www.flowgrow.de/db/aquaticplants/ammannia-senegalensis, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammannia_senegalensis |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Ghat area |
| Reported from Ghat by Corti |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1983) Flora of Libya, Lythraceae Vol. (105) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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