| Medicago marina L., it is a perennial plant up to 20-50 cm, white-tomentous, with a woody stem, long creeping. Leaflets obovate, wedge-shaped, toothed at the top, stipules entire or toothed. Yellow flowers, quite large, 5-10 in very short clusters on non-awned peduncles as long as the leaf, pedicels shorter than calyx tube, wings longer than the hull. Pods cottony, discoid, open in the center, with 2-3 tight whorls, with thick obtuse edges, provided with spread spines. 1seed in each coil, seeds 3-3.5 x 2 mm, brown. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Feb-May, Vern: Nefal, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Canary Islands, Medit to Caucasus. Notes: Wild in Libya, a species occurring in littoral areas.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:506275-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/506275-1, http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213456, https://www.gbif.org/species/2965395, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/147184/medicago-marina-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2915.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_medicagomarina.php, https://www.maltawildplants.com/FABC/Medicago_marina.php, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/MEDMAR/, https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=502573, https://floradegalicia.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/medicago-marina/ |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| ????? | Zliten-Misurata Plain | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Aoulad Mahamad near sea-shore 1977 | Sea shor N. of Misurata 1967 Leptis Magna 1968,1973,1975 Misurata (Sassu Valley) 2016 Leptus Magna 2017 | El-Hamamah to Biada 2003 |
| 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 |
| Bahri, N.M. (2017) Identify, Limit and Determine the Vegetation Types of Wadi Ka’am Areas, Libya. Journal of Marine Sciences and Environmental Technologies-Volume (3) -Issue (2) (In Arabic) http://www.asmarya.edu.ly/journal2/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/JMSET06-3-1-20171.pdf | وادي كعام ومناطق اخري 2017 |
| Aljarroushi, M.M. & Almedham, K. E. (2016) Geographical distribution and Life form of plants in Sassu Valley, Misurata area, Libya. Al-satil Vol. 10 No. 15 March 2016. https://bit.ly/3Ntrqh6, https://search.mandumah.com/Record/813441 | Sassu Valley 2016 |
| Al-Sodany, Y. M., Shehata, M. N. & Shaltout, K. H. (2003): Vegetation along an elevation gradient in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. ecologia mediterranea, tome 29, fascicule 2, 2003, p. 125-138. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yassin-Al-Sodany, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kamal-Shaltout |
Vegetation an elevation in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2003 |
