| Astragalus fruticosus Forssk., it is a perennial herb, up to 60 cm tall, erect to ascending, stout, white-tomentose. Leaves 15-30 cm long, ascending, stipules 1 cm long, free almost to the base, triangular-lanceolte, acuminate, and leaflets usually 15-30 pairs. up to 15 x 10 mm, sub orbicular to broadly ovate, usually folded, notched, green above, canescent beneath, younger leaflets crowded. Flowers 20-25 mm long, short-pcdicelled, yellow in axillary or sub sessile very short racemes or fascicles of 3-7-flowers, lax to congested, very variable. Calyx campanulate, villose, about half as long as corolla, teeth as long as tube, lanceolate. Pods 40-60 x 10 mm. terete, sub compressed, straight to subarcuate, with strong, straight, spiny. 10 mm long beak, and woooy-spongy, longitudinally nerved valves, tomentose hairy. Seeds 2 mm, reniform. Life Form: H, Flowering in: Jan-Mar, Vern:———-, Phytochoria: SA, The native range of this species is Israel to N. Egypt. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:477515-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/477515-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000212499, https://www.gbif.org/species/5343347, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/145871/astragalus-fruticosus-forssk, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ASTFRU/ |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Jabal Nafusa | Al-Qibla area | Ghadames area |
| Msallata (Shaafien) 2017 | (2 km) from Mizda to Alghariat 1977 Wadi Nesma region 2009 Wadis South of Mizda 2013 | (35 km) before Ghadames, Wadi Eddibban, Mjazims lake 1977 |
| 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 |
| Bahri, N.M. (2017) Identify, Limit and Determine the Vegetation Types of Wadi Ka’am Areas, Libya. Journal of Marine Sciences and Environmental Technologies-Volume (3) -Issue (2) (In Arabic) http://www.asmarya.edu.ly/journal2/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JMSET06-3-1-20171.pdf | وادي كعام ومناطق اخري 2017 |
| Mohamed, F.J. (2013) A Taxonomic Study of Wadis Flora South of Mizda at the intersections with Mizda-Sebha Highway. Master Thesis. Department of Botany-Faculty of Science-Sebha University. Libya. (In Arabic) | |
| Bahri, N.M. (2009) Study of the vegetation covers of Wadi Nesma region, northwest of Libya. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, College of Science, Sebha University, Libya. (In Arabic) |
