| Astragalus arpilobus Kar. & Kir. // Infraspecifics: Astragalus arpilobus ssp. hauarensis (Boiss.) Podlech / Homotypic Synonyms: Astragalus hauarensis Boiss, it is an annual herb up to 25 (-30) cm long, prostrate to ascending, whitish-canescent. Leaves 2.5-10 cm long, stipules triangular-acute, 2-4 mm long, leaflets 3-9, elliptic-oblong to broadly elliptic, truncate or retuse, appressed pubescent, 5-15 mm long. Peduncles shorler than subtending Ieaves, with 3-5-flowered terminal, Iax racemes. Flower 10-13 mm long, white or purple, pedicels 1.5 mm long, bracts minute, hyaline. Calyx 5-8 mm long, tubular, with teeth shorter than tube, white- and appressed-hirsute. Corolla almost twice as long as calyx. Pods (12-) 15-30 (-35) x 3-4 mm. semi-circular, ± cylindrical, tapering at both ends. ending in a short macro and covered with both short-appressed and long preading hairs, almost bilocular, valves separating at maturity, 12-20 seeded. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Jan-Mar, Vern:—————–, Phytochoria: SS, The native range of this species is N. Africa to Xinjiang and Socotra. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:476259-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/476259-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213535, https://www.gbif.org/species/5343755, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/198355/astragalus-arpilobus-kar-kir, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ASTARP/ |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains | Benghazi Plain |
| Misurata 2006 | (15 km) E. Sirte 1977 | Wadi El-Ghattara 2010 Wadi El-Enaghar 2021 |
| 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 |
| Omar, N., El-Mghrbi, N.G., Rahil, R.O., Alaib, M.A., Alzerbi, A.K. (2021) Floristic Composition and Plant Diversity of Western Part of Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya. Species-22(70), 2021. pp. (204-217). https://bit.ly/41TInWw, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/index.htm, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/A4.pdf | Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya 2021 |
| El-Rabiai, G.T., Al tira, F.M., Lamlom, S.H. (2010) Preliminary Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. Garyounis University Press Journal of Science and Its Applications Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 39-47, December 2010. http://sc.uob.edu.ly/assets/uploads/pagedownloads/5c3e5-39-47.pdf | Flora of Wadi El Ghattara 2010 |
| Al-Dana, S. M. M. (2006) Taxonomic study of wild flower plants in some areas of Misrata. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Misurata University (7 October previously) Misurata, Libya. (In Arabic) |
