Lamiaceae
Marrubium

Marrubium deserti (de Noé) Coss.

First published in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 4: 490 (1857)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is N. Africa to NW. Mauritania. It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the desert or dry shrubland biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Western Sahara

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Lebrun, J.-P. (1998). Catalogue des plantes de la Mauritanie et du Sahara Occidental. Boissiera 55: 1-322.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Ballota deserti.]

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Sources

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0