| Marrubium alysson L., it is a perennial herb. 30-40 cm tall, densely white fleecy. Stem simple or with ascending, erect flowering branches. Leaves grey-tomentose., fan-shaped or broadly spalhulate, densely white wooly, crenate, 2-3 x 3-4 cm. usually glabrescent above. Verticils 10-15-flowered. Bracteoles very small or absent. Calyx tube short, 4-5 mm long, faintly 10-veined, densely wooly, teeth 5, unequal. 2-3 x 1-1.5 mm, broadly lanceolate, stellate-spready, rigid and spiny at maturity. Corolla purple violet, limb short, pubescent on outside, upper lip bifid. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Mar-Apr, Vern: Rubia, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is S. Central & S. Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:449832-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/449832-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000236540, https://www.gbif.org/species/3882151, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/144177/marrubium-alysson-l, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/MARALY/, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/lamiaceae/marrubium-alysson |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Benghazi Plain |
| Sabrata 2008 Sabratah region 2020 | Leptus Megna 2004 Kaam area 2005 | (79 km) from Ajdabia to Benghazi (1978 Wadi El-Ghattara 2010 Between Slouk and Al-Abiar 2016 Wadi El-Enaghar 2021 |
| Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Marmarica Plateau |
| Misallata, Shafeyeen area, (8 km) S. of Gussbat 1978 Alamamra, (10 km) S.E. of Gussbat 1979 Tarhuna (Sok-El-Ahed) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 | Susa 1970,1972,1973 Shahat 1973 Al-Merj area 1978 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 | Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 Al-Tamimi 1968 (10 km) W. of Tobruk 1978 From Tobruk to Egyptian Border 1999 Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002 Dafna region (Tobruk to Msaid) 2008 |
| 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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