Naser Omar, Mohamed A. Alaib and Al-Zerbi, A. K - Naser G. El-Mghrbi - Raheel RO
Abstract
The piece of work has been designed to study the present-day vegetation and
document the flora of wild plants of the Wadi El- Enaghar region eastern part
of Libya. The study was carried out in the period from October 2018 to June
2020, with two trips per month at least. The plant specimens were collected in
flowering or in fruiting condition. Data inventory has been documented in the
form of family, Botanical name, vernacular name, life form, and habit. The
study revealed the presence of 207 species within 151 genera of vascular
plants belonging to 46 families, of which 17 species are belonging to
monocotyledons and 190 belonging to dicotyledons. The family Asteraceae
was the richest (35 species) followed by Fabaceae (33 species), then
Brassicaceae (17 species). In this study, there are four endemic species have
been collected. The most dominant life form was Therophytes having 119
species (57.5%) followed by Hemicryptophytes having 34 species (16.4%)
Chamaephytes 21 species (10.1%) Geophytes 18 species (8.69%)
Phanerophytes 15 species (7.2%). Finally, most of the species were herbs
(87.5%)
عبد الحميد خليفة الزربي | ِAbdulhamid Khalifa Alzerbi | 166