Medicinal and aromatic plants – industrial profiles

L. minutolii
Bolle
(
L. foliosa
Christmann)
Woody shrub 50–80 cm with distinctive very regularly pinnatisect leaves, ovate lanceolate in
outline with a greenish/white indumentum of highly branched hairs. Flower stalk usually
branched just once. Bracts 
 
same length as the mature calyx, ovate and long acuminate in
shape, the tips tinged dark violet blue. The upper middle tooth of the calyx deltoid in shape.
Flowers bicoloured. Canary Islands (Gran Canaria and Tenerife where the population is treated as
var. 
tenuipinna 
Svent.). Occasionally cultivated as an ornamental.
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L. rotundifolia
Benth
.
Woody based perennial with fleshy stems and leaves, glabrous. Leaves very distinctive broadly
ovate to triangular ovate with margins that are highly variable, usually irregularly dissected and
lobed occasionally more dentate or crenate. Bracts 0.75 to 
 
same length as calyx. Calyx teeth-
lanceolate in shape, the middle posterior tooth slightly broader. Corolla red purple in colour, the 
lobes 
 
equal in size. Native to the Cape Verde Islands where it grows on cliffs mostly in 
elevated semi-arid to humid regions. Occasionally cultivated as an ornamental.
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L. tenuisecta
Coss. ex. Ball
Woody based perennial with a characteristic indumentum of short hooked stiff simple hairs with
scattered sessile and short stalked glandular hairs, variably interspersed with longer scattered
simple hairs. Leaves ovate in outline, usually pinnatisect often with secondary lobing. Bracts dis-
tinctive in shape ovate-lanceolate with a long acuminate apex about 0.6
length of the calyx.
Late flowering June to August. Endemic to Morocco, occurring in the High and Middle Atlas at
altitudes over 1800 m.
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L. maroccana
Murb.
Woody based perennial with 50–80 cm glabrescent stems and long rather leafless sprawling
stems. Spike is short, stout and compact, 1.5–3 cm long. The bracts are diagnostic with large
membranous wings giving them an orbicular-pentagonal shape and a short sharp abrupt apex, 
c
. 0.5
length of the calyx. The upper middle posterior calyx tooth broadly deltoid, the others
lanceolate in shape. Corolla violet-blue. Endemic to the High Atlas in Morocco occurring from
sea level to 1700 m.
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