Ebenus pinnata Aiton

General Appearance

Ebenus pinnata Aiton, it is a perennial herb, woody at base, white silky, hairy, up to 40 (-60) cm tall, ascending to erect, the leaflets 5-11, linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, up to 20 x 4 mm, obtuse to acute at apices, minutely mucronulate. Stipules about as long as the leaflet but usually broader, brownish, 0-3-lobed or dentate at the apices. Peduncles up to 4 times as long as the subtending leaves. Flowering heads ovoid, dense, many-flowered, villous, and bracteate. Flowers pink with linear plumose calyx teeth, up to 12 (-15) mm long. Corolla only 5-6 mm long. Pods ovoid, membranous, included.

Life Form

Ch

Phytochoria

The native range of this species is N. Africa.

Distribution in Libya

Tripolitania: Reported from Tripolitania by Pampanini and Keith

Jabal Nafusa: Msallata (Shaafeen) 2008 Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013 Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020

Notes

Wild in Libya, a rare species, confined to the N.W. arid parts of Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:493635-1

Link of images: https://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Leguminosae/Ebenus_pinnata.htm, https://www.teline.fr/fr/photos/fabaceae/ebenus-pinnata

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:493635-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/493635-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000204627, https://www.gbif.org/species/5354888, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/146333/ebenus-pinnata-aiton, https://www.teline.fr/fr/photos/fabaceae/ebenus-pinnata, https://www.florasilvestre.es/mediterranea/Leguminosae/Ebenus_pinnata.htm

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. Page. 147.

Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:

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. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammed-Mahklouf, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341306643_Floristic_Study_and_Species_Diverisy_of_Msallata-Garaboulli_Province_in_Libya

Floristic Study and Species Diverisy of Msallata-Garaboulli Province. 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).

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).