| Trifolium resupinatum L., it is an annual herb, up to 10-40 cm, glabrous, ascending or diffuses. Leaflets oval, wedge-shaped, strongly veined, denticulate, petioles and peduncles glabrous. Pink flowers, sessile, in heads at the end subglobose, tight, hairy, on axillary peduncles longer than the leaf. Fruiting calyx swollen into a membranous bladder, veined in a network, with 10 ribs, with 2 lips, the upper one ovoid-conical, hairy, ending in 2 long divaricate points. Corolla inverted, standard below. Pods shortly ovoid, enclosed by inflated calyx, without beak. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Feb-May, Vern:————–, Phytochoria: ES+MED+IT, The native range of this species is Macaronesia, Medit. to W. Nepal Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:523627-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/523627-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213063, https://www.gbif.org/species/5359175, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148151/trifolium-resupinatum-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/3822.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_trifoliumresup.php, https://www.maltawildplants.com/FABC/Trifolium_resupinatum.php, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/TRIRES/, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/trifolium/resupinatum/, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=2628 |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains |
| Tripoli, Sidi Misri 1967 | Misurata 2008 | Sirte 2015 |
| Benghazi Plain | Marmarica Plateau | |
| Slouk-Msus road 2000 | Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 | |
| 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 |
| Saaed, M.W.B., EL-Barasi, Y.M. & Rahil, R.O. (2021) An updated checklist and quantitative analysis of the Marmarica Plateau flora, in the north-eastern part of Libya. Phytotaxa 509 (1): 001-055. https://www.mapress.com/j/pt/, https://www.biotaxa.org/Phytotaxa/article/view/phytotaxa.509.1.1 | An updated Marmarica Plateau flora 2021 |
| Elsayed M. A. N. (2015) Floristic Composition of the Plant Cover at Surt Region in Libya. Catrina (2015), 12 (1): 63-71-2010 By the Egyptian society for environmental SCIENCES. https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18403_37c687e375b9144800a15704e68ebad7.pdf | Plant Cover at Surt Region 2015 |
| 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) | |
| El-Kady, H.F. (2000) Vegetation analysis along Sluk-Msus Road in southeastern Benghazi, Libya, El-Minia Science Bulletin, Volum. 13(1), pp.61-71. 2000. |
