| Nepeta scordotis L., it is a perennial herb up to 30-00 cm tall, erect, un branched, hirsute to nearly tomentose, canescent, Stem quadrangular, leafy. Leaves 3-6 x 0.5-4 cm, broadly ovate-chordate, crenate, hirsute mostly petiolate, obtuse, sub rotund. Floral leaves sessile, entire rotundo-ovate, Flowers arranged in spike like verticils, interrupted below, congested above. Bracts 10- 13 x 7-13 mm, ovate, acute, villose, bracteoles smaller, ovate lanceolate. Calyx 9-12 mm long, densely hirsute hairy, straight, 10-veined, 5-toothed. teeth equal, 4-5 mm long. Corolla white, 16-17 mm, hispid outside, lube included, 2 times as long as the calyx, gradually widening up, excrreted. Nutlets ± globose, smooth, 1.5 x 1.5 mm. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Mar-May, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is S. Aegean Reg. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:452721-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/452721-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000251334, https://www.gbif.org/species/5609733, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/197912/nepeta-scordotis-l, https://www.levoyagedetournefort.fr/Plantes/383/Nepeta-scordotis |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Al-Bakur, near Tocra 1968 Halfway between Shahat and Susa 1970 Susa 1973 Wad i Mahbool 1978 (20 km) from Baida, Shahat, Wadi Mahboul 1978 (9 km) from Baida to Shahat, (21 km) from Gubba to Ras El-Hilal1979 Wadi El-Kauf 1978,1980 Wadi Qlaa, Ras El-Hilal, (25 km) E. of Ras El-Hilal 1980 Wadi El-Glaa, (3 km) W. of Gaser Libya, Ain Mara 1980 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 El-Bakur 2007 Wadi (Valley) Stowah region 2007 S. of AL-Marj 2011 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Wadi Haboon 2015 Wadi Derna 2017 Al-Abiar (Sidi Amohamed forest) 2020 Ain Mara 2020 |
| 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. | |
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| 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) | |
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