| Mentha pulegium L., it is a Perennial plant 10-50 cm, hairy-grayish or glabrescent, with a very strong odor; stems erect or spreading-ascending. Leaves small, short petiolate, ovate or oblong, obtuse or sub-acute, denticulate or almost entire, the floral ones shorter than the glomeruli. Pink or lilac flowers, in numerous whorls, all axillary, spaced apart, multiflorous, very compact. Calyx hairy, tubular, with throat closed by connivent hairs, sub-bilabiate with 5 unequal teeth, the 2 lower ones narrower. Corolla gibbous on one side at the throat, Carpels ovoid, smooth. The fruits consist of a cluster of four brown, 1-seeded nutlets, each about 0.7 mm long. Life Form: H, Flowering in: May-Jun, Vern:————, Phytochoria: ES+MRD+IT, The native range of this species is Macaronesia, Europe, Medit. to N. Iran and N. Ethiopia. Notes: Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:451022-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/451022-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000241235, https://www.gbif.org/species/2927189, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/117477/mentha-pulegium-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/1351.html, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/menpul/, https://burkeherbarium.org/imagecollection/taxon.php?Taxon=Mentha%20pulegium, https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/mentha_pulegium.htm, https://bsbi.org/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/Mentha_pulegium_species_account.pdf, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentha_pulegium |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Shahat 1972 Ain Mara 1979 Wadi Derna 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 |
| Ab-Aziza, F.B., El–Barasi, Y.M. and Rahil, R.O. (2017) Flora, Vegetation and Human Activities of Wadi Derna-El-Jabal. Research article I Botany l Version 1. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebeh-Rahil | Vegetation Wadi Derna 2017 |
