First record of Pluchea dioscoridis (Asteraceae) in Northern Libya

• DOI: 10.37376/sjuob.v35i2.3804
• Publication Date: 2023-12-20T18:27:01Z
• Authors: Fatma M. Altera; Tarek A. Mukassabi; Abdussalam M. Elm...; Peter A. Thomas
• Keywords: Salt marsh; Flora; Native plant

Pluchea dioscoridis (L.) DC. is a species native to Eastern Africa that has been recorded for the first time in northern Libya. It was discovered growing around city of Benghazi populations more than 100 plants beside roads and inside gardens, also on edge salt marshes typical wet habitat halophyte about five kilometres east not far from shoreline north-east Populations this plant were noticed 2018 once civil war over confirmed during an investigative research project aimed evaluate state vegetation four years after evacuation city.