| Trigonella coerulescens (M.Bieb.) Halacsy , it is an annual, silky-hairy herb with a straight, branched stem 5-40 cm tall. Leaves alternate, trifoliate, stipules are ovate, toothed, the leaves are ovate, 8–15 mm long and 3–10 mm wide, toothed in the upper half, densely wavy. The inflorescence is a 12-15-flowered dense raceme on a 1.5–5 cm long peduncle. Calyx tubular, 7–9 mm long, with awl-like teeth along the tube. Corolla is 11-15 mm long, blue. The pod is lanceolate, 10–15 mm long and 2–3 mm wide, hairy, with 4–6 seeds that are oval in outline, slightly bumpy on the surface. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Feb-Mar, Vern:———-, Phytochoria: IT+MED, The native range of this species is Aegean Islands to Iran and Libya. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:523911-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/523911-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000212939, https://www.gbif.org/species/5360472, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148215/trigonella-coerulescens-m-bieb-hal-csy, https://botany.cz/cs/trigonella-coerulescens/, https://www.yabanciot.org/weed/trigonella-coerulescens |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Marmarica Plateau |
| (12 km) E.of Labrag 1968 | From Tobruk to Egyptian Border 1999 |
| 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 |
| EL-Habony, A.M. (1999) Vegetation and flora of a sector along Mediterranean cost of Libya from Tobruk to Egyptian border, M.Sc. Thesis, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic) |
