| Coronilla valentina L., it is a subshrub 40-80 cm, glabrous, glaucous, erect, branched, branches flexuous, hard, full, leaves imparipinnate, close together, with 3-6 pairs of oblong, wedge-shaped leaflets, notched, the lower pair spread from the stem, stipules large, kidney-shaped, mucronate, wider than the leaflets, deciduous. Yellow flowers, quite large, umbels on peduncles twice as long as the leaf, pedicels almost 1 time longer than the calyx with short, unequal teeth, tabs equaling the chalice, with 4-7 articles in a spindle, with 2 obtuse angles, separating easily. Pods 10-50 mm, segments 1-10, 5-7 mm, fusiform, subcompressed, with two obtuse angles. Life Form: N-Ph, Flowering in: Feb-Apr, Vern:———–, 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:487280-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/487280-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000205294, https://www.gbif.org/species/5348633, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/146175/coronilla-valentina-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2096.html, https://www.maltawildplants.com/FABC/Coronilla_valentina.php, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_coronillavalentinava.php, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=2289 |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Wadi Om-El-Amaym 2019 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
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| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| El-farse, M.H. (2019) Study of the vegetation of Wadi Om-El-Amaym in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar region. Master Thesis- department of environmental science and engineering, Academy of post graduate studies, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic) |
