| Trifolium lappaceum L., it is an annual herb, up to 10-40 cm, slightly hairy, lying-upright, slender, with divaricate branches. Upper leaves opposite, sub sessile, leaflets obovate, denticulate at the top, stipules with short free part, lanceolate-acuminate. Pinkish white flowers, in fairly large heads, subglobose, bristly, solitary, terminal, pedunculated, rarely sessile. Calyx with a bell-shaped tube, glabrous on the outside, with 20 ribs, with a hairy and very open throat, with ciliated teeth, at the end very spread out, stiff, filiform awl, with 5 ribs at the base, almost equal, longer than the tube. Corolla barely equaling the calyx. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-May, Vern:————- , Phytochoria: MED+IT, The native range of this species is Medit. to Central Asia and Arabian Peninsula. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:523284-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/523284-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213022, https://www.gbif.org/species/5358913, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148090/trifolium-lappaceum-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/3811.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_trifollappa.php, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=7898, https://jb.utad.pt/especie/Trifolium_lappaceum |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Tripoli 1943, 1978 | Misurata 2008 | Reported from Barce (Al-Merj) by Pampanini |
| 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 |
| Baayo, Kh. A. (2008): Floristic composition and Phytochorological Analysis of Misratah area, Libya, Assiut Univ.J. of Botany 37(2), P-P. 33-78 (2008) |
