| Kickxia aegyptiaca (L.) Nábělek // Infraspecific: Kickxia aegyptiaca ssp. aegyptiaca , Kickxia aegyptiaca ssp. fruticosa (Desf.) Wickens, it is a perennial herbaceous to woody herb, 15-40 cm long with numerous, spreading rigid branches, densely covered with glandular and eglandular spreading hairs, older ones elongated and spinescent. Lower leaves 10-20 (-25) x 4-5 mm, ovate-oblong, obtuse with 2-4 mm long petiole, upper leaves smaller, 4-8 (-10) x 2-4 mm, triangular, hastate, often with 2 lateral lobes at the base or entire. Flowers yellow, pedicel spreading, rigid, 2-10 mm long, glandular hairy, usually bent upward near the tip. Calyx lobes lanceolate, acute, mucronulate, 4-5 x 1-1.5 (-2) mm, somewhat hairy, with a membranous margin. Corolla pubescent, 10-15) (-18) mm long, (including spur) with somewhat purplish palate, spur curved, 7-9 mm long. Stamen 4-6 mm long; filaments somewhat hairy. Capsule indehiscent, 2 -2.5 mm, globose. Seeds 2-4 per capsule, 1.5 mm, tuberculate, black. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Nov-May, Vern:—————, Phytochoria: SA, The native range of this species is S. & E. Medit. to E. Sahara and Arabian Peninsula. Notes: Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:804076-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/804076-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000357263, https://www.gbif.org/species/7738378, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/150404/kickxia-aegyptiaca-l-n-belek, http://www.westafricanplants.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=14&id=8734, http://atlas-sahara.org/Plantaginaceae/Kickxia%20aegyptiaca/Kickxia%20aegyptiaca.html?cat=Plantaginaceae |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains |
| Sabratah, around Roman ruins 1966 Tripoli 1967,1970,1972 (3 km) after Bir Al-Ghanam 1975 Wadi El-Hira, Sidi Gilani, rodsaid, road to Wadi Mejenini Dam project 1974 (6 km) from Ras Jadir to Sabratah, Talil, (11 km) from Sabratah on way to Zuara, (8 km) from Al-Assa on road to Regdalin 1976 Tripoli, Tajura beach 1977 Wadi Al-Kherwaa, Ain Kaam area 1978 Sidi Gilani, rodsaid, road to Wadi Mejenini Dam project 1979 Sabratha region 2020 Coastal of Tripoli 2020 Researches Station of Agriculture Faculty, University of Tripoli 2021 | Near Al-Kararim 1968 Misurata 2008 Misurata (Sassu Valley) 2016 Zliten (Wadi EL-Zekr) 2022 | Tawargha, End of Wadi Sofegeen, E. of Tawargha, (50 km) from Bugrain onway to Sirte, Wadi Jarif project, (15km) before Ras Lanuf 1978 (7 Km) SE of Sitre City 2008 Wadi Al-Hamar Region 2020 |
| Benghazi Plain | Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Wadi El-Enaghar 2021 | (22 km) W. of Al-Khoms 1967 (16 km) from Gharian, Wadi Kabao, Wadi Malah, (10 km) from Nalut, Al-Gussbat 1972 Between Hills and Gharian Town 1973 Gharian, Henshir Bo yedder Gassem, (15,37 km) from Al-Kaleaba to Mizda, Kabao, Omm El-Raamal, Tagma, (5 km) from Yefren Radio Station (37 km) before Mizda, (25 km) from Nalut to Wazen, (35 km) S. of Nalut, Al-Kaleba, Wadi Artal near Nalut 1974 Fort of Gharian mountain, Al-Romia 1975 Sharshara, Aboghilan, (7 km) from Shakshuk on way to Jado, (4 km) S. of Nalut, Shakshuk 1976 ( 8km) S. of Nalut, near the road leading to Wazin 1977 Wadi Loti, Gharian 1978 (16 km) S. of Al-Gussbat 1979 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Tarhuna (Dawoon, Hejaz, Mchhalef, Msaaed, Msabha, Sharshara, Sok El-Ahed, Terghlat, Zurgan) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 | Wadi Zaza 2003 Wadi El-Kauf 2014 |
| Marmarica Plateau | Al-Qibla area | Al-Jufra area |
| Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002 | Wadi Nesma region 2009 Wadis South of Mizda 2013 | (82 km) from Bu-Njim to Hun, Waddan 1975 (35 km) before Waddan, Weshka 1978 |
| Ghat area | ||
| Ghat (Between Acacus and Tassili Mountains) 2004 Wadi Tanezzuft 2012 | ||
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