| Salvia officinalis L., it is a perennial shrub up to c. 80 cm tall. Stem quadrangular, white wooly. Leaves oblong, 3.5-5.5 x 0.5·1.5 cm, rounded or narrowed into a 1.5-2.5 cm long petiole, entire, somewhat crumpled; lower ones pubescent on both sides or only beneath; bracts ovate, slender-pointed, sessile. Flowers pale blue or violet blue, in a ± simple raceme, with few 10-20-flowered verticils and 2.5-3 mm long pediccls. Calyx 6 mm long, campanulate, densely hairy, and petaloid. Corolla c. 15 mm long, upper lip densely multicellular hairy above, lower lip with 2 thick white bands. Stamens and style exserted. Style with multicellular hairs near the apex and usually deeply bilobed. Nutlets c. 2 x 1 mm, oblong, ± grey, mottled. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Ch, Vern:———-, Phytochoria: ES+MED ES+MED, The native range of this species is SW. Germany to S. Europe. Notes: Wild in Libya, Introduced in Libya, unspecified medicinal. The species was mentioned as a cultivated plant in the Libyan Flora Encyclopedia… It was later recorded in natural areas, so perhaps it is a wild plant. ???
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:456833-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/456833-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000301765, https://www.gbif.org/species/2927004, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/117746/salvia-officinalis-l, https://www.monaconatureencyclopedia.com/salvia-officinalis/?lang=en, https://temperate.theferns.info/plant/Salvia+officinalis, https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/120678/tab/fiche, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_officinalis, https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/sage-salvia-officinalis/ |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Tripoli, garden behind Faculty of Agricolture. Al·Faateh University 1980 | Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 | Wadi Belkaf-Bata 2016 |
| 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 |
| Al-Aib, M.A., Elbakkosh, A.M., Ali, Y.B., Gadelmola, A.S., Elmhafdi, A.M. (2016) Preliminary Investigation of the Vegetation of Wadi Belkaf-Bata Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar-Libya. Libyan Journal of Basic Science (LJBS) Vol: 4, No: 1, PP: 20-27., 2016. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamed-Alaib | Wadi Belkaf- Bata Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2016 |
| Al-Masalati, N. A. A. (2013) Plant diversity across the altitudes of the Msallata National Park Reserve Mountains. Master Thesis. Botany Department-College of Science-University of Benghazi-Libya. (In Arabic) |
