| Lotus teniuis Waldst. & Kit. Ex Willd. / Heterotypic Synonyms: Lotus glaber Mill., it is a perennial plant up to 10- 50 cm high. Branches straight, decumbent or ascending, as well as the entire plant glabrous or sparsely hairy. Leaflets of the middle leaves narrow, linear to inverted ovate-lanceolate, 6–15 × 1.5–4 mm, often sickle-shaped. Heads 2-4-flowered, fragrant, long-stalked. Calyx teeth shorter than or as long as the tube. Corolla 10 to 12 mm long, deep yellow, sometimes canopy and wings reddish, canopy incised in front, wings inverted ovate-oblong. Pods 15–30 × 2–3 mm. Life Form: H, Flowering in: May-Jul, Vern:———-, Phytochoria: ES+MED, The native range of this species is Europe to N. China, N. Africa. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:503917-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/503917-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000205262, https://www.gbif.org/species/7515045, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/146959/lotus-glaber-mill, https://botany.cz/cs/lotus-tenuis/, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2856.html, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=2698, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=4862 |
| Distribution in Libya |
| Sirte Plains |
| Sirte 2015, 2016 |
| Bibliographic references: | |
| First: Encyclopedia Flora of Libyan: | |
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| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Elsayed, N. (2016) Relationship between Vegetation and Soil Seed Bank at Protected Versus Unprotected Sites at Coastal Habitats in Libya.CATRINA (2016), 15 (1): 59-68. https://scholar.google.com.eg/citations?user=mSAskW0AAAAJ&hl=en, https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18337_76652686b5c99f5fd479aebab87fbcb4.pdf | Surt region in Libya 2016 |
| Elsayed M. A. N. (2015) Floristic Composition of the Plant Cover at Surt Region in Libya. Catrina (2015), 12 (1): 63-71-2010 By the Egyptian society for environmental SCIENCES. https://cat.journals.ekb.eg/article_18403_37c687e375b9144800a15704e68ebad7.pdf | Plant Cover at Surt Region 2015 |
