| Astragalus tribuloides Delile, it is an annual herb branched at the base, prostrate to ascending, with appressed to ascending white hairs 0.2-1.5 mm. Stems from nearly absent to 40 cm, prostrate to ascending, hairy. The leaves 1.5-7 cm, stipules membranous, 2-3 mm, hairy, petiole 0.5-2 cm, like rachis hairy, leaflets in 4-10 pairs, narrowly elliptic, 2.5-15 × 0.8-4 mm, both surfaces sericeous with appressed hairs, apex acute. Racemes sessile, rarely with a peduncle up to 2.5 cm, (1 or)2-8-flowered, bracts membranous, 1-3 mm. Calyx tubular, 3-5 mm, densely hairy, teeth 1-2 mm. Petals whitish or white suffused with mauve or pink, standard narrowly oblong, 4-10 × 1.2-2.5 mm, apex retuse, wings 4-6 mm; keel 3-5 mm. Legumes mostly starlike spreading, straight or slightly curved, oblong-triangular, 4-12 mm, 2.5-4 mm high and wide, distinctly bigibbous at base, acute at apex, with a deep dorsal groove widened at base, valves with short appressed hairs 0.05-0.15 mm and with much longer appressed to subappressed hairs up to 1.5 mm. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Feb-Mar, Vern:————, Phytochoria: SA+IT, The native range of this species is S. European Russia to Central Asia and India, N. Africa to Arabian Peninsula. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:480267-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/480267-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000212572, https://www.gbif.org/species/5344908, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/146025/astragalus-tribuloides-delile, http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242306836, https://www.floraofqatar.com/astragalus_tribuloides.htm, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ASTTRI/, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/5724.html |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Benghazi Plain |
| Sabrata 2008 | Misurata 2008 | Ajdabia (Al-Bedan) 2016 |
| Jabal Nafusa | Marmarica Plateau | |
| Al-Asaba 1968 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Tarhuna (Mckhalef) 2018 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 | Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 Al-Tamimi 1968 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 |
| El-Ahmir, S.M., Mahklouf, M.H., Shanta, M.B., Abo-Jaafer, H.A. (2020) Floristic Study of Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan District-Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology. Volume 8 / Issue 1. ISSN: 2348-7313. https://bit.ly/3VkL3Kh, https://scienceq.org/floristic-study-of-sedrores-mountains-in-gharyan-district-libya.php | Sedrores Mountains in Gharyan 2020 |
| Mahklouf, M.H. Sherif, A.S, Betelmal, A. G. (2018) Floristic Study for Tarhuna-Libya. Hacettepe J. Biol. & Chem, 2018, 46 (3), 337-364. https://bit.ly/3p26EuO, http://www.hjbc.hacettepe.edu.tr/journal/volume-46/issue-3/floristic-study-for-tarhuna-libya/index.html | Floristic Study for Tarhuna 2018 |
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