| Trifolium subterraneum L., it is an annual herb, up to 5-25 cm, softly hairy, slender, lying-spreading. Leaves all long petiolate, leaflets large, inverted heart, almost entire, stipules ovate-acute. Flowers whitish, reflexed, fertile 2-5 in loose, pedunculated, spaced, axillary heads, reflecting and 5 sinking into the ground after flowering, glabrous tube, ciliated teeth, equal, setaceous, flexose, at the end spreading, equal to the tube, emarginate standard, 1 time longer than the chalice. Pods included, subglobose, with 1 seed. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Apr, Vern:————, Phytochoria: ES+MED+IT, Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:523761-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/523761-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213094, https://www.gbif.org/species/5359330, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148183/trifolium-subterraneum-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/1185.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_trifoliumsub.php, https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/trifolium_subterraneum.htm, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/trifolium/subterraneum/, https://www.feedipedia.org/node/243, https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/127498/tab/fiche |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Al-Merj 1922 S. of Al-Marj 2011 |
| 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 |
| EL-Barasi, Y. M., Barrani, M. W., Abdelsalam, O. EL-Amrouni, N., Mohamad, F. (2011) Check list of flora and vegetation on south EL-Marj zone: south EL-Jabal EL-Akhadar. Libya. Annals of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara-International Journal of Engineering. Tome IX (Year 2011). Fascicule 3. ISSN 1584-2673, 141-146. https://bit.ly/3p7s6hV, http://annals.fih.upt.ro/pdf-full/2011/ANNALS-2011-3-24.pdf | flora and vegetation on south EL-Marj zone 2011 |
