| Astragalus crenatus Schult. / Heterotypic Synonyms: Astragalus corrugatus Bertol., it is an annual herb, prostrate to ascending, sparingly adpressed-hairy to glabrescent, up to (30) cm long. Leaves 3-5 (-10) cm long, with 11-19 leaflets, stipules hyaline lanceolate or triangular-ovate. 3-4 mm long, sub glabrous, leaflets (3-) 5-10 (-12) mm long, oblong or linear-cuneate, retuse. Flowers 5-8 mm long, violet to whitish, on 1-4 (-7) flowered. pedunculate racemes, shorter or longer than the subtending leaves. Caly 3-5 mm long, tubular-campanulate with teeth up to half as long. Pods (25-) 30-40 (-50 x (2-) 3 mm. almost cylindrical,scmicircular or arcuate, hooked or with a short mucro at tip, glabrous, with prominent reticulated veins (ridges). 10-20 seeded. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Apr, Vern:————, Phytochoria: SA+SZ+IT, The native range of this species is N. & NE. Tropical Africa to Pakistan. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:476951-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/476951-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000204854, https://www.gbif.org/species/5342673, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/145815/astragalus-crenatus-schult, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ASTCRA/, https://www.floraofqatar.com/astragalus_corrugatus.htm, https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.k000895569 |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Zliten-Misurata Plain | Sirte Plains | Benghazi Plain |
| Misurata (Sassu Valley) 2016 | E.of Taworgha, end of Wadi Soigen 1978 | Ajdabia (Al-Bedan) 2016 |
| Al-Jufra area | Ghat area | |
| Hun 2008 | Ghat, Ak-Barkat 1976 | |
| 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 |
| Aljarroushi, M.M. & Almedham, K. E. (2016) Geographical distribution and Life form of plants in Sassu Valley, Misurata area, Libya. Al-satil Vol. 10 No. 15 March 2016. https://bit.ly/3Ntrqh6, https://search.mandumah.com/Record/813441 | Sassu Valley 2016 |
| El-Zerbi, A. K. , Al-Borki, A. S., Al-Aib, M.A.(2016) Study of vegetation in Protected Al-Bedan southeast of Ajdabiya, Libya. Journal of Marine Sciences and Environmental Technologies-No. (2) Volume (2) December 2016. ISSN: 2413-5267(In Arabic) http://www.asmarya.edu.ly/journal/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/JMSET01-2-2-2016-ilovepdf-compressed.pdf | الغطاء النباتي بمحمية البيضان 2016 |
| Baayo, Kh. A. (2008) Floristic composition of Sahara Area in Libya. Catrina (2008), 3(3):37-53. https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18541_f0ebe9187acd58ae16701b93a9bf9cc2.pdf | Floristic composition of Sahara Area in Libya 2008 |
