| Nanorrhinum acerbianum (Boiss.) Betsche / Homotypic Synonyms: Kickxia acerbiana (Boiss.) Täckh. & Boulos, it is a perennial herb, profusely branched from the woody stock, 20-50 cm tall, covered with spreading glandular hairs, viscid, branches slender, brittle and twiggy. Lower leaves ovate sometimes with a cordate or hastate base, entire or with few lateral teeth, 20-25 x 5-7 (- to) mm, long petiolate; petiole up to 15 mm long. Upper and floral leaves much smaller, uppermost 2-5 mm long, almost entire, acute to mucronutate, shortly petiolate. Flowers in lax racemes, yellow; pedicels slender, 10-15 mm long, increasing up to c. 20 mm in fruit, curved upwards, glandular hairy all over. Calyx 3-5 mm long, glandular hairy, rarely glabrous; lobes lanceolate, with white membranous margins. Corolla (including spur) c. 10 mm long, glandular pubescent, spur 4-7 mm long, slender, almost straight. Capsule globose-ovoid, glandular pubescent at first, later becoming glabrescent, c_ 2-3 mm, dehiscing by permanent lateral lids. Seeds 12 (-16), c. 0.5 mm, tuberculate to verrucose, somewhat oblong. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: ——————, Vern:—————–, Phytochoria: SA, The native range of this species is Libya to Arabian Peninsula, Pakistan. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:914258-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/914258-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000381094, https://www.gbif.org/species/7332851, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/94370/kickxia-acerbiana-boiss-t-ckh-boulos |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains | Jabal Nafusa |
| Misurata 2008 | Wadi Soofejeen 2017 | Msallata (Shaafien) 2017 Wadi Kaam (Dam & lake, Main course) 2022 |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Al-Jufra area | |
| Shahat-Susa 2016 | (24,90,98 km) fron Sebha to Hun, Wadi Soda, (30 km) from Hun to Waddan, (7 km) from Waddan 1973 (2 km) from Weshka, Wadi Zaggar 1975 | |
| 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 |
| Almushghub, F., Ahmed, D., Sharaf El-Din, A., Shaltout, k. (2022) Vegetation analysis of Wadi Kaam at northwest Libya. Journal of Basic and Environmental Sciences, 9 (2022) 20-37. https://bit.ly/3AJ2ASJ, https://jbesci.org/viewp.php?files=published/9.1.3.pdf&id=213 , https://jbesci.org/published/9.1.3.pdf | Wadi Kaam 2022 |
| Bahri, N.M. (2017) Identify, Limit and Determine the Vegetation Types of Wadi Ka’am Areas, Libya. Journal of Marine Sciences and Environmental Technologies-Volume (3) -Issue (2) (In Arabic) http://www.asmarya.edu.ly/journal2/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JMSET06-3-1-20171.pdf | وادي كعام ومناطق اخري 2017 |
| Hegazy, A.; Kabiel, H.; AlRowaily, S.; Lovett-Doust,L. and AlBorki, A. (2016) Plant communities and reproductive phenology in mountainous regions of northern Libya. Journal of Forestry Research. July 2017, Volume 28, Issue 4, pp 741–761. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11676-016-0345-8, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmad-Hegazy-2 | |
| Baayo, Kh. A. (2008): Floristic composition and Phytochorological Analysis of Misratah area, Libya, Assiut Univ.J. of Botany 37(2), P-P. 33-78 (2008) |
