| Calicotome villosa (Poir.) Link, it is a shrub about 1 meter tall, erect, with thorny, divaricate, striated-furrowed, slightly tomentose gray branches. Leaves blackening little by desiccation, with obovate-obtuse leaflets, hairy-silky below, numerous flowers, fasciculated by 6-15 at the top of the branches, pedicels 1 time longer than the calyx, provided with an almost entire bract usually as long as it is wide, broad, almost obtuse hull. sub quadrangular pods, 25-30 mm, very hairy, reddish when ripe, with all-winged sutures, the upper one with a broad, wavy wing, 6-10 seeds. Life Form: N.Ph, Flowering in: Jan-Mar, Vern: Gandel, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77106062-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/77106062-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213265, https://www.gbif.org/species/2956364, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/146084/calicotome-villosa-poir-link, http://www.africanplants.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=78&id=9185, https://florapal.org/plant/calicotome-villosa/, https://jb.utad.pt/especie/Calicotome_villosa, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/calvil/, https://botany.cz/cs/calicotome-villosa/, https://www.orchid-nord.com/Flore-Djerba/Calicotome%20villosa/Calicotome-villosa.html, http://naturewonders.org/picture?/2390/categories, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calicotome_villosa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calicotome_villosa |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Al-Jafarah Plain | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Benghazi Plain |
| (20,23 km) E. Tripoli 1967 Sabrata 2008 Tripoli 2010 Jafara Plain (Wadi Ghado) 2015 El-Zawia 2015 Sidi-Omeer 2016 Sabratha region 2020 Researches Station of Agriculture Faculty, University of Tripoli 2021 | Kaam area 2005 Misurata 2006, 2008 Zliten (Wadi EL-Zekr) 2022 | Wadi El-Ghattara 2010 |
| Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | |
| Gebel Nafousa 1971 Gharian 1973 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Gasar Akhiar, Ghanima 2016 Msallata (Shaafien) 2017 Wadi Kaam 2017 Assaba 2018 Tarhuna (Hejaz, Khsaya, Terghlat) 2018 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 Gharyan (Sedrores Mountains) 2020 Wadi Kaam (Dam & lake) 2022 | Wadi El-Hussain, along the coastal road Ras El-Hilal-Shahat 1967 Near Baida 1975 El-kouf area 1984 Wadi Zaza 2003 El-Hamamah to Biada 2003 El-bakur 2007 Wadi (Valley) Stowah region 2007 Al-Mansora 2013 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Between Labrag and Shahat 2014 Wadi Haboon 2015 Balghara, Maibra 2017 Wadi Derna 2017 Assdod, Wadi Balarid, Wadi Butuma, Al-Tayes, Wadi Al-Aesh, Wadi Kaab 2018 Wadi Om-El-Amaym 2019 From Nuqrat Said to Wadi Al-Zagzoog, From Zawiet Tamula to Al-Manarh, From Lustata to Beshtaya 2019 Al-Abiar (Sidi Amohamed forest) 2020 Ain Mara 2020 Wadi Al-Kouf 2021 Al-Mansura to Settia 2021 | |
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