• Status
  • NAaccepted (present)
  • TAaccepted (present)
  • Map
  • 1000 km
    1000 mi
    Leaflet © CJBG
  • Ecology and Distribution :
  • Tropical Africa
    Biology :
    Very variable shrublet to 60 cm tall; lax to intricately muchbranched, 'rigid when old; often subdichotomously branched 'and ending spinosely.
    Ecology :
    Sandy, dry places and roadsides, fields; 1800 m alt. and more (Chad: Tibesti). N Africa; Libya, Egypt; Arabia to Pakistan; Crete, Italy.
  • Bibliography22
  • BATTANDIER, J.A & L.C. TRABUT (1888). Flore de l'Algérie [Dicot] - : 96 — under: Helianthemum sessiliflorum (Desf.) Pers. 
    Contrib. Fl. Tunisie [Murbeck] 1: 18 (1897). — under: Helianthemum lippii var. velutinum (Pomel) Murb. 
    Contrib. Fl. Tunisie [Murbeck] : 18 (1897). — under: Helianthemum lippii var. sessiliflorum (Desf.) Spach 
    PAMPANINI, R. (1914). Piantae Tripolitanae, ab auctore anno 1913 lectae et repertorium florae vascularis Tripolitaniae - Firenze: 91 — under: Helianthemum lippii var. angustifolium Willk.
    PAMPANINI, R. (1931). Prodromo della Flora Cirenaica. - : 329 — under: Helianthemum sessiliflorum (Desf.) Pers. 
    Cat. Pl. Maroc 2: 499 (1932). 
    Étud. Fl. Vég. Sahara Cental (1933) 
    Fl. Algérie [Quézel & Santa] 2: 714 (1963). 
    TUTIN, T. G. & AL. (ED.) (1968). . Flora Europaea. (ed.1). vol. 2 : 289 — under: Helianthemum sessiliflorum (Desf.) Pers.
    Fl. Libya 48: 26 (1977).
    ALI, S. I., S. M. H. JAFRI & A. EL GADI (ED.) (1977). Flora of Libya. - Al Faateh University, The National Herbarium, Department of Botany Tripoli Libya.: 28 — under: Helianthemum lippii var. sessiliflorum (Desf.) Spach
    Fl. Tunisie [Pottier-Alapetite] 1: 531 (1979).
    Fl. Sahara (ed. 2) : 353 (1983).
    GREUTER, W., H. M. BURDET & G. LONG (ED.) (1984). . MED-CHECKLIST. vol. 1 : 323 — under: Helianthemum sessiliflorum (Desf.) Pers.
    Naturalia Monspel., Sér. Bot. 56: 211 (1992).
    Fl. Prat. Maroc 1: 322 (1999).
    Fl. Egypt (Boulos) 2: 122 (2000).
    Le Hoggar, promenade botanique 105 (2004)
    Trav. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V, Sér. Bot. 37: 156 (2005)
    Fl. Tunisie (Le Floc'h & Boulos) : 167 (2008). 
    Pl. Sudan Checklist 261 (2015)
    Flore ill. Tchad 277 (2019)