| Medicago arabica (L.) Huds., it is an Annual herb to 20-60 cm, lying down, almost glabrous. Leaflets obovate in corner, toothed at the top, usually spotted with black in the middle, stipules incised-toothed. Yellow flowers, small (4-5 mm), 2-5 on awned peduncles shorter than the leaf; pedicels shorter than calyx tube, wings shorter than the hull. Pods glabrous, fairly large, subglobose, with flat faces, barely veined, with 4-6 whorls very close together, a little loose, bristling with couplet spines, crisscrossed, strongly divergent, arched outwards, not hooked. Seeds 1-2 in each coil. Oblong-ellipsoid. 3-3.5 x 1.5-2 mm. yellowish or light-brown, smooth. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: May-Sept, Vern:—————, Phytochoria: ES+MED, The native range of this species is Canary Islands, W. Europe to Medit and Caucasus. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:58427-3, https://www.ipni.org/n/58427-3, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213417, https://www.gbif.org/species/2965527, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/147091/medicago-arabica-l-huds, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/721.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_medicagoarab.php, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/medara/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicago_arabica |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Benghazi Plain |
| Reported from Benghazi 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 |
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