| Ballota nigra L., it is a perennial plant up to 50-80 (120) cm tall, pubescent to hirsute or with papillae and nonshining glands or glabrescent. Leaves petiole up to 5 cm, lower cauline leaves 2-7 x 1.5-5 cm, ovate, all but the uppermost longer than whorls. Whorls many flowered, commencing low down, distant, somewhat peduncled, bracts linear subulate 1/2 to 2/3 as long as the calyx. Calyx strongly veined and grooved, 9-13 mm long, lobes (3) 4-6.5 mm, erect awned, awn 1.5-3 mm, teeth ± equal, patent, triangular, 1/5 as long as tube, tapering into a long prickle. Corolla 10-15 mm long, pink, lilac or white, tube exserted. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in:———–, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: ES+MED, The native range of this species is Macaronesia, Europe to Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:444976-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/444976-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000315321, https://www.gbif.org/species/2926894, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/143976/ballota-nigra-l, https://botany.cz/cs/ballota-nigra/, https://temperate.theferns.info/plant/Ballota+nigra, https://ukrbin.com/index.php?id=43781, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballota_nigra, http://www.bgflora.eu/Ballota%20nigra%20L.%20EN.html, https://osogovonature.com/2020/09/06/ballota-nigra-l/ |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Jabal Nafusa |
| Reported from Tarhuna by Pampanini and Keith |
| 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 |
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