| Linaria laxiflora Desf. / Homotypic Synonyms: Antirrhinum laxiflorum (Desf.) Willd. // Synonym(s) Homotypic: Linaria laxiflora Desf. ssp. laxiflora, it is a glabrous annual with decumbent or erect branches, 10-20 cm long, leaves glaucous, linear or linerar-lanceolate, lower whorled or subquaternate, upper alternate, acute-sub acute, 10-30 (-35) x (-1) 1.5-4 (-5) mm, sessile, entire. Racemes lax, flowers long pedicellate, violet with yellow lip; pedicel increasing up to 15 mm in fruit. Bracts linear-lanceolate, deflexed, 2-4 mm long. Calyx lacinae ovato lanceolate, entire, acute, glabrous, 4-6 x 1.5-2 mm, slightly aecrescent in fruit. Corolla 18-23 mm long, lobes of the upper lip somewhat divergent, lower lip somewhat shorter, 3-lobed: spur 10- 19 mm long, erect, acute; style 1, with thick stigma. Capsule almost equaling the calyx, glabrous, rounded, 4-5 mm, subdidymous. Seeds many, pale-brown, angled, or minutely winged, crescent triangular, less than 1 mm long, strongly ruminate. Life Form: Th, Flowering in:—————, Vern:—————-, Phytochoria: SA, The native range of this species is NW. Africa. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:804721-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/804721-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000446611, https://www.gbif.org/species/7603375, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/150573/linaria-laxiflora-desf |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Benghazi Plain | Jabal Nafusa |
| Wadi Al-Atal 1972,1975 El-Zawia 2015 | Msus-Al-Ajramia zone 2004 Wadi El-Enaghar 2021 | Gebel Nafousa, (60,108 km) S.E. Jado 1970 Gebel Nafousa 1971 (2 km) from the main road, (26km) from Nalut, (14,22,31 km) S. of Nalut 1975 (4 km) from Shakshuk to Jado, Wazen 1976 |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Al-Qibla area | |
| Wadi Zaza 2003 | Wadis South of Mizda 2013 | |
| 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 |
| Omar, N., El-Mghrbi, N.G., Rahil, R.O., Alaib, M.A., Alzerbi, A.K. (2021) Floristic Composition and Plant Diversity of Western Part of Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya. Species-22(70), 2021. pp. (204-217). https://bit.ly/41TInWw, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/index.htm, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/A4.pdf | Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya 2021 |
| Al-Fiqi, Abd al-Salam M., Abul-Qasim, R. (2015) Inventory of the vegetation cover surrounding Al-Zawiya University. The Libyan Journal of Science Volume 18, 2014/2015 .(In Arabic) https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/issue/view/24 |
حصر الغطاء النباتي المحيط بجامعة الزاوية 2015 |
| Mohamed, F.J. (2013) A Taxonomic Study of Wadis Flora South of Mizda at the intersections with Mizda-Sebha Highway. Master Thesis. Department of Botany-Faculty of Science-Sebha University. Libya. (In Arabic) | |
| El-Jetlawi A.O.(2004) Study of vegetation and soil seed bank of a range desert zone (Msus-Al-Ajramia), Master of Science Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Benghazi University, Benghazi, Libya (In Arabic) | |
| El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H.(2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://bit.ly/3VowJ3q, http://www.herbmedit.org/bocconea/16-1091.pdf | flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza 2003 |
