| Linaria triphylla (L.) Mill., it is a sturdy glabrous, glaucescent, ascending or erect annual herb, 20-30 (-45) cm. Stem 1 to several, somewhat thickish with short sterile shoots at the base. Leaves somewhat fleshy, mostly whorled or opposite, usually in whorls of 3, sessile, broadly elliptic or ovate, obtuse; uppermost leaves sometimes attenuate in a short petiole, 10-20 (-25) x (8-) 10-15 mm. Flowers almost sub sessile in spike-like raceme, becoming lax and elongated in fruit. Bracts oblong-oblanceolate, 6-10 x 1.5·2.5 (-3) mm. Calyx lobes ovate or oblong, glabrous, obtuse, sub equal, 4-8 x2-3 mm. Corolla creamy white with orange yellow palate, 12-15 mm long, spur liliac, incurved, 5-9 mm long, acute. Capsule 4-6 (-7) x c. 5 mm, globose or ovoid, glabrous. Seeds many, deeply angled, alveolate, black 1-1.5 x .5-.75 mm. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: May-Jun, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya, weed in wheat fields.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:805010-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/805010-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000446953, https://www.gbif.org/species/5561322, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/150677/linaria-triphylla-l-mill, https://www.maltawildplants.com/PLNT/Linaria_triphylla.php, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2824.html, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=4752 |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| (12 km) E. of Labrag 1968 Shahat 1972,1978 Ras El-Hilal, (6 km) from Labrag on way to Derna 1978 Al-Mansora 2013 Ain Mara 2020 |
| 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 |
| Al-Maqsabi, F. M. & Makhlouf, M. A. (2020) Vegetation cover in the Ain Mara region, Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar region – Libya. The Libyan Journal of Science (An International Journal): Volume 23, 2020. (In Arabic) https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/article/view/122, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Farag-Elmokasabi-2 | Vegetation Cover of Ain Mara 2020 |
| Abusaief, H. M. A. and Dakhil, A. H. (2013) The floristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar- Libya. New York Science Journal 2013; 6(5). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Huda-Abusaief | Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2013 |
