Checklist of Flora and Floristic Study of Wadi Al-Hamar Region in Libya

Abstract

The piece of work has been designed to study the present-day vegetation and document the flora of wild plants of the Wadi Al-Hamar region north Middle Libya. . A survey of plant species of the Wadi was conducted between October 2017 to May 2018, with two trips per month at least. The plant specimens were collected in flowering or in fruiting stage. Data inventory has been documented in the form of family, Botanical name, vernacular name, life form, and habit. The study revealed the presence of 112 species within 93 genera of vascular plants belonging to 31 families, of which 13 species are belonging to monocotyledons and 99 belonging to dicotyledons. The family Asteraceae was the richest (21 species) followed by Fabaceae (19 species), then Poaceae and Brassicaceae (8 and 7 species respectively). In this study, two endemic species have been collected. The most dominant life form was therophytes having 72 species (64.28%) followed by chamaephyte having 16 species (14.28%), Hemicryptophytes 9 species (8.03%), Geophytes 8 species (7.14%), Phanerophytes 6 species (5.35%) and Parasites 1 species (0.89%). Finally, most of the species were herbs (87.5%).