A single example of this shrub was observed by Alessandro Menardi-Noguera in the central Libyan Desert, in upper Wadi Waddan, in the western granitic part of Jebel uweinat. (This same example was also noted by J. Leonard in 1969)

Wadi Waddan (Jebel Uweinat), January 2008 (Photos by Alessandro Menardi-Noguera)