| Crotalaria thebaica (Delile) DC., it is a shrubby up to 30 cm (rarely more), villous with brownish hairs, ± stiffly branched. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, ovate to suborbicular, 4-8 mm, sessile, densely hairy on both sides, often undulate and reflexed at the apex, somewhat thickish and late deciduous. Flowers axillary, yellow-purplish, c. 5 mm. distant, few on terminal or axillary subspicate racemes. Pods 5-8 (-10) mm long, ohlong to suborbicular, sessile. Densely pubescent, 2-3-seeded. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Sept-Nov, Vern: ———–, Phytochoria: SZ, The native range of this species is Egypt to N. Chad, Arabian Peninsula. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488966-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/488966-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000210585, https://www.gbif.org/species/2941841, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/64443/crotalaria-thebaica-delile-dc, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.k000412919 |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Jabal Al-Uwinat |
| Gebel Uweinat 1968 Libyan border with Sudan 1979 Jabal Al-Uweinat region 2008 |
| 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 |
| Alzwai, A.M.H. (2008) A study of the vegetation covers of the Jabal Al-Uweinat region in Libya. Master Thesis – Botany Department – College of Science – Garyounis University – Libya. (In Arabic) |
