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Fumaria officinalis L. / Infraspecifics:  Fumaria officinalis ssp. officinalis, it is an annual herb, small, robust with racemes longer than the naked peduncle below, many flowered. Flowers pink-violet, 7-9 mm long, bracts shorter than the fruiting pedicels. Sepals lanceolate 1.5-3.5 x 1-1.5 mm, dentate. Fruits truncate and retuse at the apices (subrenifnrm in profile), 2-3 mm, rugose when dry, obscurely keeled. Life Form: Th,   Flowering in: Feb-Apr,   Vern: Sfinari El-homar,   Phytochoria: S,Cosm, The native range of this species is Europe to Medit. and Caucasus.  Notes: Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.

For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30017594-2,    https://www.ipni.org/n/30017594-2,   https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000693355,   https://www.gbif.org/species/5334217,    https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/149827/fumaria-officinalis-l,  https://www.maltawildplants.com/FUMR/Fumaria_officinalis.php,   https://botany.cz/cs/fumaria-officinalis/,   https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/473.html,   https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_fumeterre.php,   https://plantevaernonline.dlbr.dk/cp/graphics/Name.asp?Language=en-la&TaskID=1&NameID=20,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumaria_officinalis

 

Distribution in Libya
Al-Jafarah Plain Zliten-Misurata Plain Benghazi Plain
Research station (faculties of Agriculture) 2017 Misurata 1975  Misurata 2008 (35 Km) South East of Benghazi (adjacent to the Jardinah village) 2020  Wadi El-Enaghar 2021
Jabal Nafusa
Janduba 1973,1974  (5 km) after Asaba, Kaleba 1974

 

Bibliographic references:  
First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:  
Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1977) Flora of Libya, Fumariaceae Vol.  (43) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya.
Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: pdf files
Omar, N., El-Mghrbi, N.G., Rahil, R.O., Alaib, M.A., Alzerbi, A.K. (2021) Floristic Composition and Plant Diversity of Western Part of Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya. Species-22(70), 2021. pp. (204-217). https://bit.ly/41TInWwhttp://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/index.htm, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/A4.pdf Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya 2021
El-Taguri, H.M., El-Mogasapi, A.M., El-Barasi, Y.M. (2020) Weed Flora of Man-Made river agriculture project (Masiklo). Libyan Journal of Science & Technology 11:1 (2020) 61-64. http://repository.uob.edu.ly/bitstream/handle/123456789/1291/15.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Abdusslam-Elmogasapi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi Weed Flora agriculture project (Masiklo) 2020
Nasif, M. A., Al-Ganoni, A. M., Knotch, O. M., Nafees. A. A. (2017) Survey of weeds in the research station of the Faculty of Agriculture-University of Tripoli. Libyan Journal of Agricultural Sciences, No. (1) Vol (22) p. (35-46). (In Arabic) https://www.ljagric.uot.edu.ly/lj/index.php/ljagric/article/view/89 الحشائش في محطة بحوث كلية الزراعة طرابلس 2017
Baayo, Kh. A. (2008): Floristic composition and Phytochorological Analysis of Misratah area, Libya, Assiut Univ.J. of Botany 37(2), P-P. 33-78 (2008)