| Teucrium polium L., it is a dwarf shrub, up to 10-40 cm tall, densely tomenteuous, canescent, or white fleecy, branches ascending or erect, panicled or corymbosc. Leaves sessile, narrowly oblong to linear, 1-3 cm long, revolute margined, obtuse, crenate, branched hairy, often fascicled. Flowers arranged in short penduncled, simple or compound, globose heads. Bracts leaf-like, linear-spathulate, entire, shorter than flowers. Calyx wooly-tomentose. 2.5-4.5 mm long, tubular-campanulate, teeth ovate, acute or obtuse. ± equal, densely hairy. Corolla white or greenish yellow, little longer than clayx. Stamens slightly exserted. Life Form: H, Flowering in: Mar-July , Vern: Jaada , Phytochoria: MED, Notes: Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:460631-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/460631-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000322436, https://www.gbif.org/species/3887764, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/145130/teucrium-polium-l, http://ibuflora.ibu.edu.tr/en/species/teucrium-polium, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/lamiaceae/teucrium-polium, https://bgflora.net/families/lamiaceae/teucrium/teucrium_polium/teucrium_polium_en.html |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains |
| (20,23 km) E. of Tripoli 1967 Tripoli 1970 Talil, (10 km) from Sabratah 1976 Suk El-Khamis, Wadi El-Kharwaa 1978 Sabrata 2008 Bir-Ayad 2013 Jafara Plain (Wadi Ghado) 2015 Sabratha region 2020 Researches Station of Agriculture Faculty, University of Tripoli 2021 | Leptus Megna 2004 Kaam area 2005 Misurata 2006,2008 Misurata (Sassu Valley) 2016 Leptus Magna 2017 | Tawrgha 1978 (5 km) W. of Sirte 1977 Sirte 1978 Sirte 2015, 2016 |
| Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Marmarica Plateau |
| Shakshook 1972 Gharian 1973 Wazen, Rejban, Ain Rumia, Kabauo, (15 km) after Kaleba to Mizda, Jado, El-Kaf zone near Jado,Al-Nagaza 1974 Misallata, Khoms, Wadi Kaam 1978 Msallata, Shafeyeen area, (8 km) S. of Gussbat, (13,16,20,25 km) S. of Gussbat 1979 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Abughilan 2016 Wadi Kaam 2017 Tarhuna (Sharsharah, Terghlat) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 | Baida, U. Scisu 1934 Wadi El-Teir, (24 km) W. of Derna, Wadi El-Hussaien 1967 Shahat, (15 km) W. of Baida, (20 km) from Baida to Derna, (24 km) from Derna to Shahat Ras El-Hilal, (5 km) from Shahat to Susa, (5 km) from Susa to Ras El-Hilal, Ain Mara1978 (1,10 km) from Ras El-Hilal to Susa 1979 Wadi Derna 1980 El-kouf area 1984 Wadi Zaza 2003 Susa, El-Fadil Abou Omar 2011 Wadi El-Shees 2014 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Wadi Belkaf-Bata 2016 Wadi Zaza 2017 Wadi Al-Kouf 2021 | Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002 |
| Al-Qibla area | Al-Hamada Al-Hamra | |
| Wadi Nesma region 2009 Wadis South of Mizda 2013 | Al-Hamada Al-Hamra Region 2020 | |
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