| Ononis ornithopodioides L., it is an annual plant 5-25 cm, slender, erect or ascending, pubescent-glandular. Leaves trifoliate, petiolate, with oval or oblong leaflets, the terminal petiolate, stipules ovate, entire, 3-4 times shorter than the petiole. Yellow flowers, small, axillary, in long, loose, leafy clusters, peduncles articulated, ridged, often also long as the leaf. Calyx with setaceous lobes, 5-6 times longer than the tube. Corolla not equaling or exceeding the calyx. Pods 18-22 mm by 3, long protruding, pendulous, linear-arched, compressed, bumpy, pubescent, with 5-10 small, tubercular seeds. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Jun, Vern:——————, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:510421-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/510421-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000212892, https://www.gbif.org/species/2977204, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/147580/ononis-ornithopodioides-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/3063.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_ononisornithopodioid.php, https://www.maltawildplants.com/FABC/Ononis_ornithopodioides.php, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ONOORN/, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/ononis-ornithopodioides |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Jabal Nafusa |
| Gharian, Tarhuna, Misallata, Wadi Zafranin 1913 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 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 |
| Mahklouf, M.H., Sherif, A.S., Betelmal, A.G. (2020) Floristic Study and Species Diversity of Msallata-Garaboulli Province in Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology Volume 7 / Issue 3 ISSN: 2348-7313. Journal homepage: http://scienceq.org/Journals/JABZ.php, https://bit.ly/3LgL0KQ, https://scienceq.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JABZV7I304.pdf | Msallata-Garaboulli Province in Libya 2020 |
| 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) |
