| Salvia viridis L., it is an annual or biennial herb up to 20-50 cm tall, erect simple or branched, with short to long ealndular hairs intermixed with capitate glandular hairs. Leaves 5 x 2.5 cm, petiolate, ovate or oblong, with cordate or rounded base, obtuse, regularly crenate, and covered with short and eglandular hairs on both sides. Verticils 4-8 flowered, with or without bracts, lowermost 1-7 cm apart, bracts linear, up to 15 x 0.5 mm. Calyx tubular, c. 7 mm, accrescent in fruit, up to 10 mm with ’13 nerves; upper lip with two, c. 1.5 mm and a cusp like median teeth, lower lip with 2, acuminate, c. 3 mm teeth. Corolla pink or violet, 14-18 mm. Nutlets oblong-trigonous, 3 x 1.5 mm, pale orange brown. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Feb-May, Vern:———–, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Medit. to Turkmenistan. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:457515-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/457515-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000302616, https://www.gbif.org/species/3883959, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/144585/salvia-viridis-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/3508.htm, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_salviaviridis.php, http://www.flowersinisrael.com/Salviaviridis_page.htm, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/salvir/, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=4680, http://www.phrygana.eu/Flora/Lamiaceae/Salvia-viridis/Salvia-viridis.html, https://botany.cz/cs/salvia-viridis/, https://biodiversitycyprus.blogspot.com/2016/02/salvia-viridis-l-cyprus.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_viridis |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Reported from Al-Merj by Keith Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Al-Agar 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 |
| Al-Aib, M.A., El- Sherif, M., Al-Hamedi, R.I. (2017) Floristic and ecological investigation of Wadi Al-Agar in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya, Science & its applications 5:1 (2017) 57-61. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamed-Alaib | Floristic of Wadi-Al-Agar-2017 |
| Al-Hamadi R.I.(1999) Floristic and ecological study of Wadi Al-Agar, Master Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic) |
