| Teucrium davaeanum Coss., it is a suffrutose shrublet. Stem decumbent, subterele, much branched, younger branches covered with soft spreading branched hairs. Leaves ± sessile, oblong-lanceolate, attenuate at base, tricrenate in the middle, obscurely nerved above, prominently nerved and densely bullate beneath, revolute margined, densely villose and wooly on both sides. Verticils forming dense ovate-sub globose terminal spikes. Calyx sub sessile, membranous, tubular-campanulate, 10-nerved, teeth sub equal, triangular, acute. Corolla pale yellowish, tube sub incurved, villous. upper lip lobes oblong, sub erect, lower lip trilobed, lateral lobes oblong-lanceolate, middle one 1 1/2 longer than lateral ones, deeply concave and almost conduplicate. Stamens actuate, filaments sparsely villose. Nutlets black, smooth and rugose. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Apr-Jul, Vern:—————–, Phytochoria: Endemic , The native range of this species is NE. Libya. Notes: Wild in Libya, Probably regional endemic, it was registered in Morocco.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:460364-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/460364-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000322064, https://www.gbif.org/species/3897185, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/145044/teucrium-davaeanum-coss |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Sirte Plains | Benghazi Plain |
| Researches Station of Agriculture Faculty, University of Tripoli 2021 | (7 Km) SE of Sitre City 2008 Wadi Al-Hamar Region 2020 | Gaminas 1978 1930 (79 km) from Ajdabia to Benghazi 1978 Wadi El-Quttarh 2016 |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Marmarica Plateau | |
| Derna 1912 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi (Valley) Stowah region 2007 S. of AL-Marj 2011 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 | Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 | |
| Bibliographic references: | |
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| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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| 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 |
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