| Vicia parviflora Cav. / Heterotypic Synonyms: Vicia laxiflora Brot., it is an annual herbs. Leaves with 2–5 linear leaflets, sometimes almost threadlike. Racemes provided with 1–4 flowers, peduncles twice as long as or longer than the axillary leaf. Calyx with uneven teeth, shorter than the tube. Corolla c. 7 mm, pale violet. Pods oblong, glabrous, straw-colored and provided with 2–7 seeds. Seeds ± spherical, 1.69–1.84 mm in diameter, smooth, greenish-ocher in color, densely mottled with black. Oval-elliptic thread, covering c. 8% of the seed contour. Prominent lens, located at c. 0.7 mm of the thread. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-Jun, Vern:—————, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Canary Islands, Madeira, S. Great Britain to Medit. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:525019-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/525019-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000186391, https://www.gbif.org/species/2974776, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148428/vicia-parviflora-cav, https://www.atlasdesemillasdecanarias.org/atlas/ficha.php?ID=23, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/VICPAR/ |
| Distribution in Libya | ||
| Jabal Nafusa | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder | Marmarica Plateau |
| Misallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020 | Costal road from Baida to Derna 1973 Ain Mara 1978 Wadi Zaza 2003 El-Hamamah to Biada 2003 | Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002 |
| 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 |
| 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) | |
| 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 |
| El-Barasi, Y. M., EI-Sherif, l. M. & Gawhari, A. M. H.(2003) Checklist and analysis of the flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at AI-Jabal AI Akhdar (Cyrenaica, Libya). Bocconea 16 (2): 1091-1105. 2003. – ISSN 1120-4060. https://bit.ly/3VowJ3q, http://www.herbmedit.org/bocconea/16-1091.pdf | flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza 2003_compressed |
| El-Shaary M.S. (2002). The Natural Vegetation in Marmarica plateau (North-eastern Libya). First ed. Tobruk (Libya): Published by the local Authority. (In Arabic) |
