| Kickxia commutata (Bernh. ex Rchb.) Fritsch, it is a slender, 20·70 cm tall, annual to parenting with many procumbent stems, glandular, villous. Leaves mostly ovate, the middle and upper ones ovate hastate to lanceolate, sagittate, shortly pilose; petiole 1-5 (-8) mm long, 4-10 x 3-5 (-6) mm. Pedicles filiform, spreading, glabrous except the shortly pilosc tip, 10-30 mm in flower. Calyx lobes narrowly lanceolate, acute, scarious margined, hispid, 4-5 mm long, not accrcscent. Corolla 11-15 mm long (icluding spur), hairy outside, whitish, upper lip sometimes lilac, lower lip lilac with dark violet palate, spur curved, 8-10 mm long. Stigma clavate, ovary globose, style and ovary glandular hairy. Capsule 2-3 (-4) mm, globose, thick walled. Seeds 8 per capsule, tuberculate, 0.75-1 mm. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Apr-Jul, Vern:————–, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Canary Islands, Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:804087-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/804087-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000357295, https://www.gbif.org/species/8111514, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/150414/kickxia-commutata-bernh-ex-rchb-fritsch, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/4141.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_kickxiacommutata.php, https://botany.cz/cs/kickxia-commutata/https://botany.cz/cs/kickxia-commutata/ |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| (5 km) from Shahat 1972 Shahat, near Tourism Motel 1978 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1982) Flora of Libya, Scrophulariaceae Vol. (88) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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