| Teucrium apollinis Maire & Weiller , it is a suffrutescent perennial much branched, branches prostrate, very leafy, tomentose with long, simple crisped subadpressed hairs. Young leaves whitish tomentose above, densely greyish tomentose below, oblong-ohovate, obtuse, flat ± revolute margined. Flowers in subglobose, axillary or terminal heads. Heads c. 2 cm in diam, forming racemes. Bracts leafy, shorter than calyx. Flowers subessile. Calyx c. 7 mm long, campanulate with short crisped simple hairs, teeth c. 1.5 mm long, unequal broad, ovate, sub acuminate, aristate and carinate. Corolla large, c. 8 mm long, tube sparsely villous, hairs long, septate. Stamens slightly exserted, filaments purplish, sparsely long villous, anthers light saffron. Style glabrous, somewhat purplish, overtopping the stamens. Fruiting rarely. Life Form: H, Flowering in: Apr-May, Vern:——————, Phytochoria: Endemic, The native range of this species is NE. Libya. Notes: Wild in Libya, endemic in Cyrenaica.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:460233-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/460233-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000321855, https://www.gbif.org/species/3898659, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.mpu004040 |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Benghazi Plain | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Between Slouk and Al-Abiar 2016 | Wadi El-Teir, (24 km) W. of Derna, along the coastal road to Susa, Wadi El-Hussaien, along the coastal road Ras El-Hilal to Shahat 1967 (24 km) from Shahat on way to Susa Shahat 1978 (2 km) before Susa coming from Ras El-Hilal 1979 Al-Mansora 2013 Gebel Akhder 2015 Shahhat, Susah 2016 Wadi Ralles 2017 Wadi Derna 2017 |
| 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 |
| Marzouk, R.I. & El-Badan, G.E. (2018) Molecular Characterization of Teucrium L. (Lamiaceae) as a Prerequisite for its Conservation. Asian J. Biol. Sci., 11 (1): 16-23, 2018. https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ajbs.2018.16.23 | Molecular Characterization of Teucrium L. 2018 |
| Ab-Aziza, F.B., El–Barasi, Y.M. and Rahil, R.O. (2017) Flora, Vegetation and Human Activities of Wadi Derna-El-Jabal. Research article I Botany l Version 1. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebeh-Rahil | Vegetation Wadi Derna 2017 |
| Abusaief, H. M. A. (2017) Similarities between elevations in a rare species of some locations at Al- Jabal Al-Akhdar in Libya. International Journal of Environment ISSN 2077-4505.Volume: 06 Issue: 03 July-Sept. 2017, Page: 78-102. http://www.curresweb.com/ije/ije/2017/78-102.pdf | Similarities between elevations in a rare species 2017_compressed |
| Abusaief, H.M.A. & Alwishish, F.M. (2017) Survey of endangered plants and description the seeds in some sites at Al-JabalAl-Akhdar of Libya. Curr. Sci. Int., 6 (3): 511-539, 2017 ISSN 2077-4435. http://www.curresweb.com/csi/csi/2017/511-539.pdf | Survey of endangered at Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2017_compressed |
| Marzouk, R.I., EL-Darier, S.M., Askar, A.M. (2017) Pollen Morphology of Teucrium L. (Lamiaceae, Ajugoideae) in Libya. Bangladesh J. Plant Taxon. 24(2): 219-226, 2017 (December). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ream-Marzouk, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Salama-El-Darier | Pollen morphology of Teucrium L. 2017 |
| Marzouk, R.I., EL-Darier, S.M., Askar, A.M. (2016) Nutlet micromorphological characters of Teucrium taxa (Lamiaceae) in Libya. Phytotaxa 263 (3): 245-254. https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.263.3.5 | Nutlet micromorphological characters of Teucrium taxa 2016_compressed |
| Hegazy, A.; Kabiel, H.; AlRowaily, S.; Lovett-Doust,L. and AlBorki, A. (2016) Plant communities and reproductive phenology in mountainous regions of northern Libya. Journal of Forestry Research. July 2017, Volume 28, Issue 4, pp 741–761. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11676-016-0345-8, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmad-Hegazy-2 | |
| Raheel, RO. M., El-Borasi, Y. M., El-Barrani, M. W., El-Hassi, S. (2016) Study of Flora and vegetation cover of the semi-desert area between Salouq and Al-Abyar-the first high of Jabal Al-Akhdar-Libya, Fourth Scientific Conference for Environment and Sustainable Development In dry and semi-arid areas. Ajdabia. Libya. (In Arabic) https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebeh-Rahil | between Salouq and Al-Abyar 2016 |
| Essokne, R.S. & Jury, S.L. (2015) Report on a visit to Gebel Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Fl. Medit. 25: 79-85-doi: 10.7320/FlMedit25.079-Version of Record published online on 30 December 2015. http://www.herbmedit.org/flora/FL25_079-086.pdf | Report on a visit to Jebel Akhdar 2015 |
| 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 |
