Flora

Glandora rosmarinifolia (Ten.) D.C.Thomas

Family: Boraginaceae

Flowering Time: Feb-May.

General Appearance

Glandora rosmarinifolia (Ten.) D.C.Thomas / Homotypic Synonyms: Lithodora rosmarinifolia (Ten.) I.M.Johnst., it is a caespitose dwarf shrub, up to 30-60 cm tall, with the older branches dark grey, younger appressed hairy. Leaves, 15-40 (-60) mm long, linear to lanceolate, acute or sub obtuse, olive green, rigid, sparcely setulose to glabrous above, densely greyish appressed setose beneath, setae patent at the margin and with a strongly revolute margin. Calyx elliptic lanceolate, 6-7 mm long with white appressed setae. Corolla blue-pink, setulose outside, tube c. 12 mm long with a limb c. 17 mm in diameter with rounded lobes. Stamens included, anthers oblong, c. 2 mm long. Stigma capitate, exserted, rarely included. Nutlets whitish smooth.

Life Form

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is S. Italy, Sicilia, Algeria.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain: Misurata 2006

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: (24 km) W. of Derna, Argul El-Abiad, near Susa to the south, along the road to Shahat Wadi El-Teir 1967 Wadi Qalaa above Ras El-Hilal, Wadi Mahbool, Baida-Derna coastal road 1973 Wadi (Valley) Stowah region 2007 Wadi El-Kouf 2014

Notes

Wild in Libya.

Link of images: https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=4264, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=4793

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77088635-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/77088635-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000509321, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/132752/lithodora-rosmarinifolia-ten-i-m-johnst, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=4264, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=4793, https://eol.org/pages/5352683

Bibliographic References

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. 85- under Lithodora rosmarinifolia (Ten.) I.M.Johnst.

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

El-Mokasabi, F M. (2014) Floristic Composition and Traditional Uses of Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 14 (8): 685-697, 2014, ISSN 1818-769,IDOSIPublications,2014DOI:10.5829/idosi.aejaes.2014.14.08.12375. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/441b/23b83960f007044aca94e26f5c6b170fe102.pdf

Plant Species at Wadi Alkuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya 2014

Nawras, A. M. B. (2007) A study of the vegetation cover in the Wadi (Valley) Stowah region. Master Thesis. Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University-Libya. (In Arabic).

Al-Dana, S. M. M. (2006) Taxonomic study of wild flower plants in some areas of Misrata. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Misurata University (7 October previously) Misurata, Libya. (In Arabic).