| Linaria micrantha (Cav.) Hoffmanns. & Link, it is a slender, glaucous annual herb, 5-15 (-40) cm tall, glabrous except the glandular hairy inflorescence. Stem 1-several, simple or branched, with short sterile shoots at the base; lower leaves whorled, linear; cauline leaves whorled or uppermost alternate, oblong-lanceolate, 2-3 mm broad. Raceme capitate in fruit sometimes elongated, lax; pedicel glandular hairy, shorter than the calyx. Bracts linear, longer than the pedicel. Calyx c. 3 mm long, increasing up to 4-5 mm in fruit; lobes oblong-linear, obtuse, glandular-ciliate or glabrous. Corolla 3-5 mm long, blue, spur white, c. 1 mm long, broadly conical, nearly perpendicular to the corolla tube or slightly curved. Capsule somewhat globose, 4-5 (-6) mm long. Seeds black, discoid, smooth or minutely tuberculate, 1.3-1.5 mm in diameter. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: ————, Vern:—————-, Phytochoria: MED+IT, The native range of this species is Canary Islands, Medit. to Central Asia and W. Iran, Arabian Peninsula. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:804769-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/804769-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000446734, https://www.gbif.org/species/7451655, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/150580/linaria-micrantha-cav-hoffmanns-link, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2820.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_linariamicrantha.php, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/linaria-micrantha |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Benghazi Plain |
| Reported from Benghazi by Durand & Barratte |
| 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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