| Pseudodictamnus mediterraneus Salmaki & Siadati / Homotypic Synonyms: Ballota pseudodictamnus (L.) Benth., it is a perennial plant woody at base, up to30-50cm, yellow tomentose. Middlecauline leaves 2-3 x 1.5-2 cm. broadly ovate or subcordate, thick, petiole 2-4 mm. Calyx 8-10 mm, funnel shaped, limb 7-8 mm in diam, irregularly crenate, 5-10-lobed, the largest lobe up to 2 mm, triangular-acuminate, ± mucronate. Corolla 14-15 mm, pink. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Jun-Jul, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is S. Aegean Reg., SW. Türkiye, NE. Libya to NW. Egypt. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77191015-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/77191015-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000315572, https://www.gbif.org/species/10830727, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/241746/pseudodictamnus-mediterraneus-salmaki-siadati, https://phrygana.eu/Flora/Lamiaceae/Pseudodictamnus-mediterraneus/Pseudodictamnus-mediterraneus.html, https://garden.rcplondon.ac.uk/Plant/Details/1892, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudodictamnus_mediterraneus |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Sirte Plains | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Marmarica Plateau |
| (18 km) W. Bugrain 1978 | Wadi El-Tair, (24 km) W. Derna, along the coastal road to Susa 1967 Shahat 1970, 1972 (2 km) from Faidia, Gaser Libya, Taknes 1972 (17 km) from Al-Gaigab to Martuba 1972 (55 km) E. Baida 1975 Ain Mara, Derna, (10, 24 km) from Derna to Shahat, Shahat 1978 (1 km) from Susa to Ras El –Hilal, Shahat 1979 Bomba Gulf 1980 El-kouf area 1984 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi (Valley) Stowah region 2007 Al-Dercya, Susa, El Fadil, Abou Omar 2011 Al-Mansora 2013 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Between Labrag and Shahat 2014 Wadi Al-Zaqzuq, Al-Hania 2014 Derisia (Talmeta), Tocra-Wadi El-Akar, Marawa-El-Merj, El-Baida-Shahat, Slonta, Wadi El-Gharega 2016 Slolnta, Shahat old city, Balghara 2017 Wadi Derna 2017 From Nuqrat Said to Wadi Al-Zagzoog 2019 Ain Mara 2020 | Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 Al-Tamimi 1968 Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002 Dafna region (Tobruk to Msaid) 2008 |
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