A glaucous, glabrous, low shrub with numerous, branched, sulcate stems, erect or ascending. Leaves are fleshy and variable: those of vegetative branchlets are oblanceolate in outline, pinnatisect, with linear acute lobes, slightly clasping at the base, while leaves of flowering branches are linear and mucronate. Inflorescence is a pyramidal panicle with female marginal florets; inner florets are 5-dentate, male. Fruit is an obovoid, faintly striate, brownish achene, usually only one achene ripening per capitulum (hence the epithet monosperma).
Mareotic Sector, North Sinai, Isthmic Desert, Galala Desert, Libyan Desert, Nubian Desert, Gebel Oweinat, South Red Sea Coast, North Red Sea Coast, Mountainous Southern Sinai, Libyan Desert (Location: Quattara depression).
Libya, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Arabia.
Sandy plains and desert wadis.
Perennail.
Height: 0.4-1.2 m.
Artemisia monosperma is a species of flowering plant in the wormwood genus Artemisia, family Asteraceae, native to Libya, Egypt, the Levant, and the Arabian Peninsula.[1] It plays an important role in ecological succession by stabilizing sand dunes.[2]
Artemisia monosperma is a species of flowering plant in the wormwood genus Artemisia, family Asteraceae, native to Libya, Egypt, the Levant, and the Arabian Peninsula. It plays an important role in ecological succession by stabilizing sand dunes.
