| Vicia lutea L., it is an annual herb, climbing, 20-50 cm, little hairy, slender. Leaves with 5-7 pairs of linear-oblong, obtuse and mucronate leaflets, rowing tendrils; stipules entire or bilobed. Flowers pale yellow or tinged with purple, large, axillary, solitary or geminate, sub sessile. Calyx glabrous, bell-shaped, with very unequal teeth, the 2 upper ones short and connivent, the lower one longer than the tube, very hairless standard. Pods 25-30 mm by 8-9, oblong, stipitate, are bristling with white swollen-tubercular hairs at the base, pendulous and blackish when ripe, globose seeds. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: May-Jul, Vern:————–, Phytochoria: MED+IT, The native range of this species is E. Central Europe to Medit. and Iran. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:524905-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/524905-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000212752, https://www.gbif.org/species/2974753, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148389/vicia-lutea-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/1246.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_vicialutea.php, https://temperate.theferns.info/plant/Vicia+lutea, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/viclut/ |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Marmarica Plateau |
| (39 km) from Jado to Yefren 1970 Gharian 1973 Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 | Baida 1970 S. of Al-Marj 2011 | Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 |
| 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 |
| Mahklouf, M.H., Sherif, A.S., Betelmal, A.G. (2020) Floristic Study and Species Diversity of Msallata-Garaboulli Province in Libya. J. of Advanced Botany and Zoology Volume 7 / Issue 3 ISSN: 2348-7313. Journal homepage: http://scienceq.org/Journals/JABZ.php, https://bit.ly/3LgL0KQ, https://scienceq.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JABZV7I304.pdf | Msallata-Garaboulli Province in Libya 2020 |
| Al-Masalati, N. A. A. (2013) Plant diversity across the altitudes of the Msallata National Park Reserve Mountains. Master Thesis. Botany Department-College of Science-University of Benghazi-Libya. (In Arabic) | |
| EL-Barasi, Y. M., Barrani, M. W., Abdelsalam, O. EL-Amrouni, N., Mohamad, F. (2011) Check list of flora and vegetation on south EL-Marj zone: south EL-Jabal EL-Akhadar. Libya. Annals of Faculty Engineering Hunedoara-International Journal of Engineering. Tome IX (Year 2011). Fascicule 3. ISSN 1584-2673, 141-146. https://bit.ly/3p7s6hV, http://annals.fih.upt.ro/pdf-full/2011/ANNALS-2011-3-24.pdf | flora and vegetation on south EL-Marj zone 2011 |
| Mohammed, S.A.H. (2008) A taxonomic and ecological study of the plants of the Shaafin Reserve in Masalatah. Master Thesis. Department of Biology-Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Al-Mirqab University. Al-Khums. Libya. (In Arabic) |
