| Origanum cyrenaicum Bég. & Vacc., it is a shrublet with branches 10-20 cm tall. Stem quadrangular, erect or ascending, minutely puberulent. Leaves small, with short petioles, ovate-orbiculate, base rotund or often subcordate, obtuse apex entire and and cartilaginous margined, purplish green, mostly minutely scabrid, ciliate, along the veins and the margin, inconspicuously pellucid-punctate. Floral leaves like cauline ones, but usually smaller. Verticils oblong, few flowered, short pedunculate, slightly pendulous on one side. Bracts somewhat purplish, ovate-lanceolate, concave, closely imbricate longer than the calyx, glabrous, not punctate. Calyx glandular-pellucid and adpressed minutely glandular hairy, bilabiate. upper lip optuse ciliate and sIightly repando-tridentate, lower lip small, bilobed, with long weak haris in the throat. Corolla white, twice as long as the calyx, glabrous, tube thin (slender), lobes suhequal, entier ohtuse, upper broadly 1-lobed, lower smaller and shortly 2-lobed. Stamens and styles exserted. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Oct-Jan, Vern:————, Phytochoria: Endemic, The native range of this species is Libya (Cyrenaica). Notes: Wild in Libya, endemic to Cyrenaica.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:453234-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/453234-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000260584, https://www.gbif.org/species/3895013, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/144376/origanum-cyrenaicum-b-g-a-vacc, https://gphjournal.org/index.php/as/article/view/1382 |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Gebel Akhder 1970 Wadi El-Kauf 1983 Gebel Akhder 2009 Wadi El-Akar, Wadi Algharega, Wadi El-Kouf 2011 Al-Mansora 2013 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Shahat old city, Balghara, Al-Mansoura 2017 Ain Mara 2020 |
| 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 |
| Al-Maqsabi, F. M. & Makhlouf, M. A. (2020) Vegetation cover in the Ain Mara region, Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar region – Libya. The Libyan Journal of Science (An International Journal): Volume 23, 2020. (In Arabic) https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/article/view/122, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Farag-Elmokasabi-2 | Vegetation Cover of Ain Mara 2020 |
| Abusaief, H. M. A. (2017) Similarities between elevations in a rare species of some locations at Al- Jabal Al-Akhdar in Libya. International Journal of Environment ISSN 2077-4505.Volume: 06 Issue: 03 July-Sept. 2017, Page: 78-102. http://www.curresweb.com/ije/ije/2017/78-102.pdf | Similarities between elevations in a rare species 2017_compressed |
| El-Mokasabi, F M. (2014) Floristic Composition and Traditional Uses of Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 14 (8): 685-697, 2014, ISSN 1818-769,IDOSI Publications,2014 DOI: 10.5829/idosi. aejaes. 2014.14.08.12375. https://bit.ly/3VtCvAA, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/441b/23b83960f007044aca94e26f5c6b170fe102.pdf | Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf 2014 |
| Abusaief, H. M. A. and Dakhil, A. H. (2013) The floristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar- Libya. New York Science Journal 2013; 6(5). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Huda-Abusaief | Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2013 |
| Hegazyi, A.K., Boulos, L., Kabiel, H.F. and Sharashy, O.S. (2011) Vegetaion and species altitudinal distribution in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar landscape, Libya. Pak. J. Bot., 43(4): 1885-1898, 2011. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmad-Hegazy-2 | Vegetaion in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar landscape 2011 |
| El-Darier, S.M. & El-Mogaspi, F.M. (2009) Ethno botany and Relative Importance of Some Endemic Plant Species at El-Jabal El-Akhdar Region (Libya). World Journal of Agricultural Sciences 5 (3): 353-360, 2009 ISSN 1817-3047, IDOSI Publications, 2009. https://bit.ly/3ANLWS1, http://www.idosi.org/wjas/wjas5(3)/16.pdf | Endemic Plant Species at El-Jabal El-Akhdar 2009 |
