| Globularia alypum L., it is a shrub, up to 1 m tall, young twigs and leaves covered with white calcareous dots. Leaves whorled to alternate, obovate to entire or shallowly 3-lobed above, up to 18 x 8 mm, glabrous, calcareous-dotted, lip sharply pointed. Heads terminal or axillary, 1-2 cm in diameter; involucral bracts imbricate, ovate, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 5-6.5 mm x c. 2 mm, acute, spreading hairs at the margins only. Calyx 3.5-4.5 mm long, pilose, hairs spreading, teeth 2-2.5 mm long. Corolla 7.5-10 mm long, outer lip generally with 3 lobes, c. half as long as the corolla, rarely bilobed; inner lip generally with 2 small lobes. Stamens typically 4, didynamous, rarely almost equal, or only 3. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Oct-Apr, Vern: Zariga, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya, medicinal plant, endangered Plant in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:813050-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/813050-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000703791, https://www.gbif.org/species/7703240, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/150368/globularia-alypum-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2499.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_globulariaalypum.php, https://www.phrygana.eu/Flora/Plantaginaceae/Globularia-alypum/Globularia-alypum.html, https://botany.cz/cs/globularia-alypum/ |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Zliten-Misurata Plain | Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Leptus Megna 2004 | Misallata 1913 (50 km) S. of Gharian 1931 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 | Merg, Bueseir 1925 Tolmeta, Wadi Bu-Msceifa, Barce, Sidi Ahmed el-Cheila 1933 Shahat, Baida, Susa, Messa, Gubba 1934 Altopiano betweem Mrawa and Faidia 1939 Nnrth Barce 1957 Farzuga 1959 (15 km) E. of Al-Merj, Wadi El-Hussaien 1967 Wadi Qalaa 1970 Mrawa, (20 km) from Taknes 1973 Wadi Mahbool 1975 El-kouf area 1984 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 El-Hamamah to Biada 2003 Wadi (Valley) Stowah region 2007 Al-Dercya, Wadi El-Akar, Shahat,El-Fadil Abou Omar, Wadi Algharega, Qandulah, Al-Marj-Al-Baida motorway, Wadi El-Kouf 2011 Al-Mansora 2013 Wadi El-Shees 2014 Wadi El-Kuf, Shahat 2014 Wadi Haboon 2015 Maibra. Wadi Zaza, Wadi Jarjar-Omma 2017 Wadi Om-El-Amaym 2019 Al-Teneen area northwest of Al-Marj 2020 Wadi Al-Kouf 2021 Al-Mansura to Settia 2021 |
| Marmarica Plateau | Al-Qibla area | |
| Al-Makhili, Om Razum 1934 | Wadi Nesma region 2009 | |
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