Balangu Shirazi (Iran)

بالنجو

COMMON NAME: Balangu Shirazi (Iran)

ARABIC: بالنجو

BOTANICAL NAME: Lallemantia royleana (Benth.) Benth

FAMILY: LAMIACEAE

KIND: Native

EMIRATE: Fujairah

GROWTH FORMS: Herbs

HABITATS: Slope (Rocky)

TYPES: Annual

DESCRIPTION:

Annual, stems square, unbranched or branched at base, erect, up to 10(–25) cm, aromatic, covered with soft hairs. Lower leaves oval, 0.8–1.5 × 1–2 cm, on stalks as long or longer than the leaf, with scalloped edges. Upper leaves narrower with very short stalks. Flowers pale blue in 4–6-flowered whorls, tube about 8 mm long. Lower lip 3-lobed; upper lip with two short lobes and 2 longitudinal folds inside. Fruit oblong, brown nutlets. Flowering from February to April.

REFERENCES:

M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.