| Trifolium squamosum L., it is an annual herb up to 10-40 cm, pubescent, erect or ascending. Upper leaves opposite, petiolate, leaflets obovate or oblong, barely denticulate, stipules narrow, with linear free part, longer than the fused part. Pinkish white flowers, in fairly small heads (10-14 mm wide), ovoid, solitary, terminal, pedunculated, rarely sessile. Fruiting calyx with a bell-shaped tube, glabrescent, with 10 ribs not reaching the flared apex, with herbaceous, ciliated, spreading, stiff, lanceolate-acuminate teeth, with 3 ribs, unequal, the longer lower one equaling the tube. Corolla twice as long as the calyx. Pods included. Life Form: Th, Flowering in:————, Vern:————-, Phytochoria: ES+MED, The native range of this species is Macaronesia, England, Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:523726-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/523726-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213082, https://www.gbif.org/species/5359194, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148162/trifolium-squamosum-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/4345.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_trifoliummaritim.php, https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/160269/tab/fiche |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Reported from Gubba by Keith |
| 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 |
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