| Lathyrus gorgoni Parl., it is an annual herb ascending or climbing, glabrous up to 60 cm long, with Stems angular to narrowly winged. Leaves ending in a tendril, stipules semi sagittate with lanceolate or ovate, acuminate upper portion, about as long as the petiole. Leaflets 1-paired, narrowly linear or oblong-lanceolate to elliptical, acuminate or mucronale, 15-80 x (1-) 2-18 mm. Peduncles about as long as sub tending leaves. 1-flowered. Flowers usually yellow, light gingery orange, 15-20 (-25) mm long, bracts small, sublease, ciliate, pedicels up to about as long as the calyx. Calyx 7-9 mm long with teeth at least twice as long as tube, spreading to deflexed in fruit, lanceolate-subulate, acuminale. Corolla over twice as long as calyx. Pods 25-50 x 5-8 mm. linear, somewhat flattened, beaked, and spreading or deflexed, 3.ridged along ventral suture, net-veined, 4-8-seeded. Seeds 3-5 mm, sub globular, purple-brown rarely mottled with dark brown. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Feb-Apr, Vern:————–, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Sardegna to Iraq. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:501732-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/501732-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000186108, https://www.gbif.org/species/5356525, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/146771/lathyrus-gorgonii-parl, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/LATGOR/ |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Benghazi Plain | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Marmarica Plateau |
| Benghazi 1913 | Shahat ?? Wadi Zaza 2003 Sidi Abu-Ras 2017 Al-Abiar (Sidi Amohamed forest) 2020 | Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002 |
| 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 |
| Al-Amrouni, M,M., Al-Zarbi, A., Al-Aeb, M. A. (2020) Study of vegetation cover in Sidi Amohamed forest north of the city of Al-Abyar in the Al-Jabal Al-Al-Akhdar. Libya. Journal of Quality Assurance for Scientific Research-The first issue-April-2020 (In Arabic). https://lqac.org.ly/index.php/april2020/, https://lqac.org.ly/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/PDF-1.pdf | غابة سيدي أمحمد شمال مدينة الابيار2020 |
| El-Zerbi, A. K. & Al-Aib, M.A. (2017) Study of vegetation cover in Sidi Bouras region, Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering JESE, VOL. 1, No. 1, January 2017. (In Arabic) http://jese.uoa.edu.ly/JESE_V1N1/JESE_V1N1P11.pdf | سيدي ابو راس 2017_compressed |
| El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H.(2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://bit.ly/3VowJ3q, http://www.herbmedit.org/bocconea/16-1091.pdf | flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza 2003_compressed |
| El-Shaary M.S. (2002). The Natural Vegetation in Marmarica plateau (North-eastern Libya). First ed. Tobruk (Libya): Published by the local Authority. (In Arabic) |
