| Marrubium deserti (de Noè) Coss./ Homotypic Synonyms: Ballota deserti (de Noè) Jury, Rejdali & A.J.K.Griffiths, it is a shrub with white woolly appressed hairs. Leaves small, cuneiform or wedge shaped, bearing 3 dentitions at the apex. Flowers in small glomerulus clusters in the axils of the leaves, lax, interrupted, 12-15 mm broad. Calyx 4-6 mm, tube contracted at the apex. Corolla pale-rosy, small, shorthly slightly exserted beyond the calyx tube. Calyx considerably accrescent, forming a membranous halo round the fruit. Life Form: N.Ph, Flowering in: Mar-Apr, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: SA, The native range of this species is N. Africa to NW. Mauritania. Notes: Wild in Libya, in a pre-desert and maritime zone.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:449876-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/449876-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000236588, https://www.gbif.org/species/3881833, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/117804/marrubium-deserti-de-no-coss, https://jb.utad.pt/especie/Marrubium_deserti |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains | Jabal Nafusa |
| Misurata 2006 | Gulf of Sirte, Between Misurata and Bugrain 1970 (4 km) before Tawargha projict 1978 | Alghwazi, (25 km) from Gussbat 1979 Msallata (Shaafien) 2017 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1985) Flora of Libya, Lamiaceae Vol. (118) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Bahri, N.M. (2017) Identify, Limit and Determine the Vegetation Types of Wadi Ka’am Areas, Libya. Journal of Marine Sciences and Environmental Technologies-Volume (3) -Issue (2) (In Arabic) http://www.asmarya.edu.ly/journal2/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JMSET06-3-1-20171.pdf | وادي كعام ومناطق اخري 2017 |
| Al-Dana, S. M. M. (2006) Taxonomic study of wild flower plants in some areas of Misrata. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Misurata University (7 October previously) Misurata, Libya. (In Arabic) |
