General Appearance
Echium tuberculatum Hoffmanns. & Link, it is an erect hispid, biennial herb, up to 25-90 cm tall with many flowering branches. Basal leaves 50-130 x 6-15 mm long, narrowly oblanceolate. Cauline leaves 25- 100 x 4-15 mm, narrowly oblong to lanceolate. Calyx linear lanceolate, 5-8 mm at anthesis, slightly accrescent. Corolla 15-25 mm long, dark blue purple, narrowly infundibuliform with 2-4 irregularly exserted stamens. Nutlets 4, pyramidal-beaked, 1.5-2 mm long, tubereled.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
Al-Jafarah Plain: Reported from Tripoli by Keith without locality
Cyrenaica: Reported from Cyrenaica by Keith without locality
Notes
Wild in Libya.
Link of images: https://www.plantasyhongos.es/herbarium/htm/Echium_tuberculatum.htm, https://flora-on.pt/?q=Echium+tuberculatum
For more information
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:115929-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/115929-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000663115, https://www.gbif.org/species/7295533, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/132633/echium-tuberculatum-hoffmanns-link, https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/boraginaceae/echium-tuberculatum, https://www.plantasyhongos.es/herbarium/htm/Echium_tuberculatum.htm, https://flora-on.pt/?q=Echium+tuberculatum, https://www.floravascular.com/index.php?spp=Echium%20tuberculatum
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. 49.
Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:
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