| Salvia chudaei Batt. & Trab., it is a suffruticose herb up to 30-60 cm tall. Stem much branched, eglandular and retrorse hairy, and oil globules, mostly below. Leaves simple, narrow linear 20-30 x c. 2 mm, leathery undulate crenate, revolute, on both surfaces with very short, simple eglandular hairs and numerous oil globules, sessile or sub sessile. Verticils up to 8. c. 4- flowered, up to 13 mm apart below, many and close above. Floral leaves ovate, slightly acuminate, c. 3 x 0.7 mm, bracts absent, pedicels up to 1.5 mm. Calyx ovate-campanulate, up to 4 mm, accrescent in fruit up to c. 6 mm, c. 14 veined, with a very dense indumentum of long spreading eglandular hairs, shorter round calyx teeth and oil globules. Upper lip with 3 subs equal teeth, c. 0.7 mm, lower lip with two 2 mm long, acuminate teeth. Corolla violet-blue to deep purple, c. 7 mm. Nullets black, trigonous, c. 2 x 1 mm. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Apr, Vern:—————, Phytochoria: SA, The native range of this species is Central Algeria, N. Chad. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:455951-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/455951-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000300684, https://www.gbif.org/species/3881461, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/117760/salvia-chudaei-batt-trab, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.upwta.3_56, https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/salvia.chudaei |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Tibesti area |
| Reported from Tibesti by Hedge |
| 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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