| Sideritis romana L.// Infraspecifics: Sideritis romana ssp. romana, Sideritis romana ssp. purpurea (Talbot ex Bentham) Heywood, Sideritis romana ssp. curvidens (Stapf) Holmboe/ Homotypic Synonyms: Sideritis curvidens Stapf, it is an annual herb, up to 3-15 cm, softly pilose, simple or branched from base. Vertieils occur from base of stem. Leaves few, soft-hairy, 0.5-1 x 1-2.5 cm, obovate-oblong, crenate-dentate, obtuse, and ending in a petiole. Floral leaves oblong, faintly dentate or entire, stiffly mucronate. Venicils remote, 4-6-flowered. Calyx strongly saccate at base, obscurely veined, ± 2-lipped, uppermost (posterior) tooth broadly ovate, other teeth smaller, triangular, teeth curved, acute, not pungent, ending in a recurved awn. Corolla white, included, upper lip linear, short. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Apr, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:459074-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/459074-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000310409, https://www.gbif.org/species/2926687, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/144890/sideritis-romana-l, https://botany.cz/cs/sideritis-romana/, https://maltawildplants.com/LABT/Sideritis_romana.php, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/4226.html, https://www.orchid-nord.com/Flore-France/Lamiaceae/Sideritis%20romana/Sideritis-romana.html |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Reported from Tolmetta and Wadi Derna by Durand & Barratte El-Karsa, costal road Derna-Ras El-Hilal 1968 Abu Dher, (24 km) from Baida 1972 (3 km) from Ras El-Hilal to Shahat 1979 Ras El-Hilal, (1 km) from Ras El-Hilal to Shahat old road, Wadi Mahbool 1980 Wadi Zaza 2003 Al-Mansora 2013 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 |
| 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-Mokasabi, F M. (2014) Floristic Composition and Traditional Uses of Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 14 (8): 685-697, 2014, ISSN 1818-769,IDOSI Publications,2014 DOI: 10.5829/idosi. aejaes. 2014.14.08.12375. https://bit.ly/3VtCvAA, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/441b/23b83960f007044aca94e26f5c6b170fe102.pdf | Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf 2014 |
| Abusaief, H. M. A. and Dakhil, A. H. (2013) The floristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar- Libya. New York Science Journal 2013; 6(5). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Huda-Abusaief | Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2013 |
| El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H.(2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://bit.ly/3VowJ3q, http://www.herbmedit.org/bocconea/16-1091.pdf | flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza 2003_compressed |
