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Vicia hybrida L., it is an annual herb climbing, 20-50 cm, hairy-bristly. Leaves with 4-8 pairs of obovate or oblong leaflets, truncated or notched,rowing tendrils, stipules entire or 2-lobed, unspotted. Flowers yellowish, large, axillary, solitary, subsessile. Calyx bristly, bell-shaped, with slightly unequal teeth, erect, shorter than the tube, hairy standard outwards to the base. Pods 25-30 mm by 8-9, oblong, stipitate, bristling with white non-tuberculous hairs at the base, pendulous and tawny.  Life Form: Th,   Flowering in: Feb-May,   Vern:——–,   Phytochoria: MED+IT, The native range of this species is Medit. to Central Asia and Afghanistan.    Notes: Wild in Libya.

For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:524828-1,    https://www.ipni.org/n/524828-1,    https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000212744,    https://www.gbif.org/species/2975257,     https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148376/vicia-hybrida-l,   https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/1244.html,    https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_viciahybrida.php,    https://flora.org.il/en/plants/VICHYB/,   http://www.flowersinisrael.com/Viciahybrida_page.htm,   https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=502457,   https://dryades.units.it/Roma/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&id=2457&num=580,   https://biodiversitycyprus.blogspot.com/2018/02/vicia-hybrida-l-cyprus.html

 

Distribution in Libya
Jabal Nafusa Al-Jabal Al-Akhder
Msallata (Shaafien) 2017 Reported from Cirene by Pampanini and from Wadi El-Kauf by Keith  (12 km) E. Al Merj 1968   Wadi Derna 2017

 

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
Ab-AzizaF.B., ElBarasi, Y.M. and Rahil, R.O. (2017) Flora, Vegetation and Human Activities of Wadi Derna-El-JabalResearch article I Botany l Version 1. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rebeh-Rahil Vegetation Wadi Derna 2017
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