Medicinal and aromatic plants – industrial profiles

L. mairei
Humbert var. 
mairei
A subshrub forming a dome shaped bush 40–50 cm high, the whole plant grey-green in appear-
ance consisting of a distinctive indumentum of long white stiff hairs, variable in density over
many short stalked glandular hairs. Leaves ovate-lanceolate in outline, 2–4 pinnatisect. Bracts
very large 1.0–1.2
length of the calyx, rhomboid in shape, the apex acuminate. The upper 
middle posterior calyx tooth broadly deltoid and shorter than the lateral pair, the lower pair 
narrowly lanceolate. Corolla dark violet. Endemic to Morocco occurring in the lower regions of
SE High Atlas and adjacent ranges on open rocky habitats and desert plains.
The taxonomy of the genus 
Lavandula 
L.
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var. 
antiatlantica 
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