1. Introduction
Thymelaea is a genus comprising about 30 species of evergreen shrubs under the flowering plant family. Thymelaeaceae, one of these species―which is the main focus in this article―is known as Tl [1]. Tl is a shrub that
can be 40 to 70 cm tall with deep roots and a swivel. Its rods are elongated and upright with many leafy
branches over their entire length (or almost the totality of their length) and the foliage is dark green and persistent.
Additionally, the leaves of Tl are alternate, sessile, oblong-lanceolate and slightly concave, and the older
leaves are glabrous below, while they are covered with a whitish tomentum in abundance above, and inflorescences
are on top of the twigs with 2 to 9 sessile flowers, where the male and female flowers are distinct, and a
small fruit is indehiscent with a single seed