Medicinal and aromatic plants – industrial profiles

L. antiatlantica 
Maire, 
L. mairei 
var. 
intermedia
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It differs in its indumentum of short stalked glandular hairs making the plant viscid with only
a few scattered simple or branched non-glandular hairs. Bracts longer than in var. 
mairei
1.2–1.5
length of the calyx with a long acuminate apex almost becoming spinescent. Endemic
to the Anti-Atlas on open rocky habitats and desert plains.
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L. antineae
Maire (Figure 2.13)
Woody based perennial with erect and branching annual stems, usually quite leafy. Indumentum
of short hooked stiff white hairs and longer simple to once-branched white stiff hairs, variable in
density over sparse short stalked glandular hairs. Leaves pinnatisect ovate to ovate-lanceolate in
outline. Bracts 0.5–0.75
length of calyx, ovate-lanceolate with small thin wings, apex long
acuminate. The upper middle posterior calyx tooth-deltoid in shape, the upper lateral lobes 
triangular, the lower lobes narrowly lanceolate. Corolla tube dark violet-blue the lobes becoming
bright blue. Endemic to the Central Saharan Massifs of the Hoggar Mountains (Algeria) and Aïr
Mountains (Niger) on rocky mountains habitats over 1500 m.
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