| Ballota andreuzziana Pamp., it is a perennial herb, up to c. 40 cm tall. Stem herbaceous, divaricately branched, sparsely floccose. Leaves ovate 3.5 x 2.5-3 cm, base truncate, obtuse, crenate, beautifully variegated, green above, rugulose and puberulent beneath with raised reticulate venation, both simple and stellate hairy and pubescently nerved, petiole c. 2 cm long, patently hirsute. Verticils remote, 4-8-(10)-f1owered, bracteoles filiform, peduncles 2 mm long with equally long, short acuminate spines. Calyx including teeth 13-14 mm long, obconical-tubular, glandular pubescent, teeth 2.5-3 mm long, slightly triangular, with equally long spines, caducous. Corolla 4 mm long, raised above clayx tube, tube included, posterior lip white tomentose. Life Form: Ch , Flowering in: Mar-Apr, Vern:————, Phytochoria: Endemic, The native range of this species is Libya. Notes: Wild in Libya, Endemic in Al-Jabal Al-Akhder.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:444924-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/444924-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000314694, https://www.gbif.org/species/3883321, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/143960/ballota-andreuzziana-pamp |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Wadi El-Hussaien, along the coastal road from Ras El–Hilal to Shahat 1967,1970 Wadi El-Tair, (24 km) W. Derna, along the coastal road to Susa 1967 Wadi El-Kauf, Gaser Libya 1978 Ain El-Dubusia, (15 km) from Derna to Baida, (13 km) from Ras El–Hilal to Derna 1979 Wadi (Valley) Stowah region 2007 Gebel Akhder 2009 Wadi Haboon 2015 Gebel Akhder 2015 Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2021 |
| 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 |
| Mohamed, A.H., Mosallam, H.A., Sergwa, S.S., Gibreel, M.A. (2021) Impact of Edaphic Factors on Vegetation Composition in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. Egypt. J. Bot., Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 191-201 (2021) https://ejbo.journals.ekb.eg/article_119404.html | Impact of Edaphic Factors 2021_compressed |
| Essokne, R.S. & Jury, S.L. (2015) Report on a visit to Gebel Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Fl. Medit. 25: 79-85-doi: 10.7320/FlMedit25.079-Version of Record published online on 30 December 2015. http://www.herbmedit.org/flora/FL25_079-086.pdf | Report on a visit to Jebel Akhdar 2015 |
| 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 |
| Nawras, A. M. B. (2007) A study of the vegetation cover in the Wadi (Valley) Stowah region. Master Thesis. Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University-Libya. (In Arabic) |
