| Medicago secundiflora Durieu., it is an annual herb, 3-12 cm, lying or ascending, covered with whitish hairs. Leaflets obovate or oblong, stipules lanceolate, entire or with 2 teeth at the base. Yellow flowers, very small, few in number, 3-10 in short, somewhat loose clusters, peduncles longer than the leaf. Calyx with linear-setaceous lobes, equal to or exceeding the corolla. Very small pod, softly hairy, kidney-shaped, veined in a network on the faces, with arcuate veins, diverging to the right and left of the central axis, with 1 oblong seed devoid of tubercle at the umbilicus. Life Form: Th, Flowering in:————–, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is S. France to NE. Spain, Baleares, N. Africa. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:506419-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/506419-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213474, https://www.gbif.org/species/2965236, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/147244/medicago-secundiflora-durieu, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2925.html, http://www.herbier.sesa-aude.fr/Medicago-secundiflora |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Jabal Nafusa |
| Reported from Mesellata, Garian by Pampanini (but needs confirmation from our area, Sometimes cultivated as forage.) Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 |
| 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 |
| Al-Masalati, N. A. A. (2013) Plant diversity across the altitudes of the Msallata National Park Reserve Mountains. Master Thesis. Botany Department-College of Science-University of Benghazi-Libya. (In Arabic) |
