Globularia Arabica is a low perennial shrub that reaches up to 20-40 cm. Juvenile branches and leaves are covered with minute calcareous dots. Leaves are 0.5-2 x 0.3-0.8 cm, alternate or clustered at the nodes on old branches, glabrous, obovate to spathulate, with entire margins and mucronate apex. Flowers are blue and arranged in terminal heads with a hairy calyx. The fruit is a nutlet enclosed within the persistent calyx.
Isthmic Desert (Location: Maghara), Galala Desert, Mountainous Southern Sinai, Mareotic Sector.
Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Arabia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia.
Calcareous ridges.
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Height: 20-40 cm
