| Melilotus albus Medik. / Syn. Melilotus alba Medik., it is an annual herb, generally erect, up 10 I (-2) m high, glabrous. Leaves trifoliolale, petiolate, stipulate, stipules 3-10 mm long, linear-subulate, entire, leaflets usually oblong or obovate to linear or elliptic, 10-30 x 5-15 mm, sparsely dentate. Racemes 3-5 cm long, pediculate, becoming lax and elongated, up to 15 cm in fruit. Flowers 3.5-4.5 mm long, white, pedicellate, becoming deflexed in fruit. Calyx 2-2.5 mm long, teeth half as long as tube. Corolla 3.5-4.5 (-5) mm long, wings and keel sub equal, shorter than standard. Pods 3-4 x c. 2 mm. sub compressed, irregularly reticulate-rugose, glabrous. ± ellipsoidal, with a short curved beak at apex, brownish-black when ripe. 1-2-seed. Seed 2-2.5 x 1.5 mm. yellow-brownish, Smooth or warty. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Apr-Oct, Vern:————–, Phytochoria: Cosm, The native range of this species is Europe to China, N. Africa to Myanmar, Ethiopia to S. Africa. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:156656-2, https://www.ipni.org/n/156656-2, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000212815, https://www.gbif.org/species/2971095, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/128368/melilotus-albus-medik, https://osogovonature.com/2021/07/05/melilotus-albus-medik/, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/melilotus/albus/, https://www.floraofqatar.com/melilotus_albus.htm, https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendium.33693, https://www.i-flora.com/en/fact-sheets/search-for-species/art/show/melilotus-albus.html, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melilotus_albus |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Sirte Plains | Benghazi Plain | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| (7 Km) SE of Sitre City 2008 | Reported from Benghazi by Pampanini | Ain Mara 2020 |
| 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-Maqsabi, F. M. & Makhlouf, M. A. (2020) Vegetation cover in the Ain Mara region, Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar region – Libya. The Libyan Journal of Science (An International Journal): Volume 23, 2020. (In Arabic) https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/article/view/122, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Farag-Elmokasabi-2 | Vegetation Cover of Ain Mara 2020 |
| Al-Aib, M. A. and El-Shakhy, N. O. (2008) Weed flora of great man made river agriculture project (sirte). Journal of Agriculture and Environment for International Development, Vol.102, Issue 3: 241-25. https://bit.ly/3njkLeH, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamed-Alaib |
