Medicinal and aromatic plants – industrial profiles

L. atriplicifolia
Benth. (
Sabaudia atriplicifolia
(Benth.) Chiov.)
Woody perennial forming a bushy, weak stemmed aromatic shrub, 30–100 cm, the whole plant
with a dense white indumentum. Leaves simple, entire and sessile, linear lanceolate in outline.
Peduncle branched and bearing a compact drooping spike, 1.5–3 cm long. Bracts persistent,
almost papery, obovate to circular in outline, 0.75–1
length of calyx. Corolla 
c
. 3
the length
of the calyx, the inside of the corolla tube glabrous, the five lobes all equal, narrowly lanceolate
to triangular in outline, yellow brown in colour. Native to Saudi Arabia and the Republic of
Yemen on dry rocky areas over 2500 m.
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L. erythreae
(Chiov.) Cufud. (
Sabaudia erythreae
Chiov.)
Woody perennial to 100 cm, the whole plant with a dense white indumentum. Leaves simple
very rarely with 1–2 lobes, entire and sessile, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic in outline. Peduncle
highly branched and bearing a compact drooping spike, 1–1.5 cm long. Bracts persistent,
almost papery, obovate to circular in outline, 0.5
length of calyx. Corolla 
c
. 3
the length 
of the calyx, the inside of the corolla tube hairy, the five lobes all equal, narrowly triangular to
lanceolate in outline, the margins reflexed, pale yellow to yellow brown in colour. Native to
Eritrea.
Intersectional hybrids
Several intersectional hybrids are recorded and are becoming widely grown as ornamentals