lanceolate in shape, the tips often tinged pink.
Corolla sky blue to lilac, the corolla tube narrow
and distinctly curved. The most widespread species of lavender occurring from the Cape Verde
Islands,
across North Africa, West Tropical Africa, NE Tropical Africa, Western Asia (Israel,
Jordan and Iran) and the Arabian Peninsula. Found in open rocky and
stony habitats and desert
plains from
sea level to
c
. 2000 m.
18.
L. pubescens
Decne.
A woody based perennial with clumps of annual stems 30–60 cm,
the whole plant very
glandular and highly aromatic. Stems have a distinctive indumentum of long white stiff hairs
over numerous short stalked glandular hairs. Leaves ovate in outline, 2–3 pinnatisect.
Flower
spikes compact and unbranched. Bracts ovate with a long acuminate apex 0.6 to 1
length of
calyx. Corolla tube distinctly curved about 0.5
along its length, violet-blue. Syria, Jordan,
Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen Arab Republic.
19.
L. citriodora
A.G.
Miller
A woody based perennial, strongly aromatic and with a distinctive smell of lemons and a grey–
green appearance. Indumentum of simple and branched non-glandular hairs and scattered sessile
and stalked glandular hairs. Leaves ovate to
broadly triangular in outline, pinnatifid. Spike
simple only occasionally branched. Bracts broadly ovate with acute apex 0.75–1.5
length of
calyx. The upper middle posterior calyx tooth broadly triangular the lateral pair narrowly
triangular, the lower pair of lobes narrowly deltoid. Corolla bright blue to violet.
Endemic to
Saudi Arabia and the Yemen Arab Republic found in open rocky habitats between 1900
and 2700 m.
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