Trifolium uniflorum L., it is a perennial plant of 3-6 cm, hairy, grassy, with leaves and peduncles arising from a woody stem. Leaves long petiolate, leaflets rhomboidal-orbicular, veined, edged with cusped teeth. Purpurine or white flowers, large, at the end reflexed, solitary or twinate on very short axillary peduncles, close together, smooth, at the end swollen into a club and curved in 5. Calyx with 10 ribs, hairy teeth, almost equal, spreading, 1 time shorter than the tube. Pods protruding, linear-acute, hairy, with 3-6 seeds. Life Form: Ch, Flowering in: Mar-May, Vern:————–, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is SE. Europe to Türkiye, Libya. Notes: Wild in Libya, Rare in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:523822-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/523822-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213109, https://www.gbif.org/species/5359468, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148202/trifolium-uniflorum-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/3835.html, https://botany.cz/cs/trifolium-uniflorum/, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/view/item/57949.html |
Distribution in Libya |
Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
Slonta 1970 Gubba 1973 Taknis 1978 Al-Mansora 2013 |
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 |
Abusaief, H. M. A. and Dakhil, A. H. (2013) The floristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar- Libya. New York Science Journal 2013; 6(5). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Huda-Abusaief | Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2013 |