| Crotalaria microphylla Vahl, it is a small, decumbent, slender herb with thread-like branches, glabrous or strigose-pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate, with short petioles, leaflets narrow, oblong or oblong-obovate, up to 10 mm long, glabrous above, thinly silky below. Flowers 1-2 together, yellow-white (the slandard yellow. keel white to yellow. veined with mauve). Pods up 10 10 (-12) mm long, oblong, pubescent. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: ————-, Vern: ———–, Phytochoria: SA+SZ, The native range of this species is Cape Verde to Arabian Peninsula. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488502-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/488502-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000186898, https://www.gbif.org/species/2942163 https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/64312/crotalaria-microphylla-vahl, https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Crotalaria.microphylla, https://www.biosurveys.org/taxon/crotalaria-microphylla-1116870 |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Tibesti area |
| Reported from Tibesti by Keith |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
| Jafri, S.M.H. & El-Gadi, A. (1980) Flora of Libya, Fabaceae Vol. (86) Department of Botany, Al-Faateh Univ., Tripoli, Libya. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
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