| Salvia aegyptiaca L., it is a sufruticose plants, perennials up to c. 10-20 (-40) cm high, very branched, with ascending to erect stems. Leaves narrow, linear-elliptic to linear-oblong, short petiolate, with crenate to serrated margins. Inflorescence erect, lax, with the whorls well-spaced at the bottom. Flowers, usually, 2-6 per whorl, bracts shorter than the calyx, green. Calyx pedicellate, campanulate, bilabiate, somewhat accrecent in fruiting, equipped with glandular and eglandular hairs. Corolla up to 8 mm, white, tinged lavender, rarely completely white. Nuculas c. 1.5 x 1 x 0.5 mm, narrowly obovate-oblong, trigonal, with very softened angles and the 3 faces practically flat. Surface somewhat shiny, charcoal colored, minimally reticulated-foveolated. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Dec-Jun, Vern: Shejert el ghazal, Phytochoria: SA+SZ, The native range of this species is Macaronesia to NW. India. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:455578-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/455578-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000300188, https://www.gbif.org/species/10667710, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/117752/salvia-aegyptiaca-l, https://www.atlasdesemillasdecanarias.org/atlas/ficha.php?ID=87, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/SALAEG/, https://www.floraofqatar.com/salvia_aegyptiaca.htm, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/lamiaceae/salvia-aegyptiaca, http://atlas-sahara.org/Lamiaceae/Salvia%20aegyptiaca/Salvia%20aegyptiaca.html?cat=Lamiaceae, https://jb.utad.pt/especie/Salvia_aegyptiaca, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/48723.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_aegyptiaca |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains |
| Wadi Al-Atal 1975 Wadi El-Mjeneen 1976 Bir Ayiad project 1978 Bir-Ayad 2013 | Leptus Megna 2004 Kaam area 2005 Misurata 2006,2008 Zliten (Wadi EL-Zekr) 2022 | Sirte 2015, 2016 Wadi Soofejeen 2017 |
| Jabal Nafusa | Marmarica Plateau | Al-Qibla area |
| Gharian 1969 Shakshook 1972 (37 km) from Kaleba 1974 (4 km) W. of Aboghilan, Aboghilan, (4 km) from Abou Alal 1975 Before Bir Shakshook And Gasr Al-Haj, (7 km ) from Shakshook on way to Jado 1976 (2 km) before Nalut 1977 Wadi Kaam 2017 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 Wadi Kaam (Main course) 2022 | Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002 | Wadis South of Mizda 2013 |
| Al-Jufra area | Fezzan area | |
| Wasi Soda 1972 (98,95 km ) from Hun to Seabha, Wadi Soda 1973 Desert betwwen Al-Fughha & Zella 1978 | Fezzan 1972 | |
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