Echium rauwolfii Delile

Family: Boraginaceae
Flowering Time: Mar-Apr.

General Appearance

Echium rauwolfii Delile, it is an erect, annual herb, covered by spreading, bulbous based setae with one to many flowering stems. Leaves narrowly lanceolate to oblong, 50-100 (-120) x 3-5 (-6) mm. Calyx 5-6 mm long, elliptic- lanceolate, slightly accresecnt, densely beset with the spreading setae. Corolla, 12-15 mm long, about equally broad. Stamens 3-4, exserted; anthers less than 1 mm long. Stigma bifid; style glabrous. Nutlets pyramidal-beaked, c. 3 mm long, flat at base, tuberculted.

Life Form

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Phytochoria

SA. The native range of this species is N. Africa to Arabian Peninsula.

Distribution in Libya

Tripolitania:  Reported from Tripolitania by Durand & Barratte

Al-Jufra area:  Reported from Gebel Soda, Bir Gofta, Wadi El-Hachim by Durand & Barratte

First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan:

Jafri, S. M. H. & El-Gadi, A. (1979) Flora of Libya, Boraginaceae Vol. (68) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. Page. 45.

Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:

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