| Astragalus taubertianus Asch. & Barbey ex E.A.Durand & Barratte, it is an annual, biennial or perennial herb up to 50 cm tall, with spreading white and black hairs. Branching from the base with prostrate or ascending Stems. Leaves(3-) 5-10(-15) cm long, with 8-12 pairs of leaflets, stipules ovate-oblong, acuminate, herbaceous, somewhat connate below, leaflets 4-12 mm long, obovate-oblong 10 oblong-elliptical, truncate to emarginalc at apex, adpresscd-villose, especially above, becoming sub glabrous or sparsely hairy below. Peduncles exceeding to somewhat shorter than sublending leaves, with (5-) 7-12 (-15)-flowered, dense spicate racemes. Flowers 15-20 mm long, white- to pale yellowish-purplish, sessile or subsessilc. Calyx c. 10 mm long, tubular, denscly black and white, villose, teelh ± as long as tube, lanceolate, standard oblong-rhombic or ovoid-oblong, ± acuminate above. Pods ovoid-oblong, 15-20 (-30) x (5-) 8-12 mm, hispid-haire, ± reticulately wrinkkd or rugose. valves not or hardly separating at maturity, many seeded. Seeds globular, c 1 mm. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Apr, Vern:———-, Phytochoria: Endemic, The native range of this species is NE. Libya. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:480136-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/480136-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000212570, https://www.gbif.org/species/5345058, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/146020/astragalus-taubertianus-e-a-durand-barratte |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Near Labrag 1968 Wadi Zaza 2003 |
| 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 |
| El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H.(2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://bit.ly/3VowJ3q, http://www.herbmedit.org/bocconea/16-1091.pdf | flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza 2003_compressed |
