| Micromeria guichardii (Quezel & Zaffran) Brullo & Furnari, it is a suffrutescent undershrub up to 10-15 cm tall, branched from the base, densely short glandular hairy. Stems quadrangular, Leaves sub sessile, lanceolate. 5-7 x 2-2.5 mm, revolute-margined, obtuse, 5-veined, midrib distinct than the lateral veins, Verticils 1-3-nowered, terminal. Bracts similar to basal leaves, longer than the flowers. Flowers sub sessile. Calyx tubular, 3 mm long. straight or slightly curved, hispid, with short glandular hairs on outside, prominently IS-veined, with 5 short, sub equal teeth, 1/5 as long as the tube, long hairy in the throat and at the calyx tube, 5-lobed, the upper lobes smaller, partly connate, ovate, the lateral ones sub quadrangular. The lower lobe projecting out from the base. Stamens hardly exceeding the calyx tube, anthers subglobose, 0.3-0.4 mm. Nutlets oval-elliptic, obtuse, trigonous, brown. c.1x 1 mm. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Apr-May, Vern:—————-, Phytochoria: Endemic, The native range of this species is Libya. Notes: Wild in Libya, endemic to Al-Gabal AL-Akhder.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:451786-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/451786-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000243292, https://www.gbif.org/species/5606439, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/144250/micromeria-guichardii-qu-zel-zaffran-brullo-furnari, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00837792.1979.10670168 |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Reported from N. of Al-Merj by Keith Gebel Akhder 2009 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
