| Scutellaria rubicunda Hornem., it is a perennial herb, 15-30 (-40) cm tall. Stems slender, branched, erect, shortly stipilate-glandular above, especially in inflorescence. Petioles 1-3.5 cm long, lamina crenate, ovate, obtuse, upper ones 4.5 x 3.5 cm, lower ones 1.5 x 1 cm, glabrous to velutinous. Flowers, in long lax, racemose inflorescence. Bracts leafy, 0.7-1.5 x 0.4-1 cm, petiolate, oblong or ovate, entire, shorter than the flowers. Calyx with numerous long while, eglandular hairs. Corolla 10-15 mm long, whitish with violet to purplish mottled tips. Nutlets minute, subglobose, black and tuberculate. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Apr-May, Vern:——————, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Sicilia, Libya. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77176863-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/77176863-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000308388, https://www.gbif.org/species/8207284, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/144715/scutellaria-rubicunda-hornem, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=7027 |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Tarhuna (Mckhalef) 2018 | Reported from Shahat by Pampanini and Keith Ain El-Dubusia 1979 |
| 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 |
| Mahklouf, M.H. Sherif, A.S, Betelmal, A. G. (2018) Floristic Study for Tarhuna-Libya. Hacettepe J. Biol. & Chem, 2018, 46 (3), 337-364. https://bit.ly/3p26EuO, http://www.hjbc.hacettepe.edu.tr/journal/volume-46/issue-3/floristic-study-for-tarhuna-libya/index.html | Floristic Study for Tarhuna 2018 |
