| Anagyris foetida L., it is a shrub up to 1-3 m tall, branched almost from the base, with erect or ascending branches, younger branches appressed-pubescent or tomentose. Leaves alternate, petiolate, 3 ,foliolate, stipules tomentose, united at least up to half their length, leaflets 3-8 cm long, usually elliplic or lanceolate, sessile, entire, glabrous above, pubescent beneath. Flowers yellow, 1.5-) cm long. pediccls as long as or shorlcr than calyx, somewhat elongating in fruit, calyx appressed-puhescent with triangular-teeth, sometimes blackish-green. Keel twice or more as long as calyx, standard c. half as long as keel. Obcordate, often with a blackish spot. Pods (3-) R-14 x 1.2-2 cm. broadly linear, pendulous, straight to arcuate, tapering at both ends. acuminate, usually undulate at margin, glahrous, brownish. Seeds 2-6, reniform, compressed, violet. Life Form: Ph, Flowering in: Feb-Mar, Vern: Karrob Kalb, Phytochoria: MED+SA, The native range of this species is Medit. to Arabian Peninsula. Notes: Wild in Libya, medicinal plant.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:473968-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/473968-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000211883, https://www.gbif.org/species/2946427, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/145635/anagyris-foetida-l, https://www.maltawildplants.com/FABC/Anagyris_foetida.php, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=502252, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/anafoe/, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_anagyrisfoetida.php, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagyris_foetida |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Marmarica Plateau |
| Msallata (El Amoud area) 1979 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 | Wadi El-–Tier, (24 km) W. Derna, along the coastal road to Susa 1967 Shahat 1973 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Habun (Ain Al-Shallala) 2017 Wadi Om-El-Amaym 2019 Ain Mara 2020 | From Tobruk to Egyptian Border 1999 |
| 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 |
| Al-Maqsabi, F. M. & Makhlouf, M. A. (2020) Vegetation cover in the Ain Mara region, Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar region – Libya. The Libyan Journal of Science (An International Journal): Volume 23, 2020. (In Arabic) https://uot.edu.ly/journals/index.php/ljs/article/view/122, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Farag-Elmokasabi-2 | Vegetation Cover of Ain Mara 2020 |
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| Al-Masalati, N. A. A. (2013) Plant diversity across the altitudes of the Msallata National Park Reserve Mountains. Master Thesis. Botany Department-College of Science-University of Benghazi-Libya. (In Arabic) | |
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| EL-Habony, A.M. (1999) Vegetation and flora of a sector along Mediterranean cost of Libya from Tobruk to Egyptian border, M.Sc. Thesis, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic) |
