General Appearance
Lathyrus aphaca L., it is a scrambling or trailing, glabrous annual herb, up to 60 cm long, with angular (not winged) stems. Leaves reduced to stipules and tendrils (except the juvenile); stipules 5-40 mm long, leaf like, ovate, sagittate-hastate to truncate at base, apiculate; tendrils simple, filiform, 10-60 mm long. Peduncles 1-2-flowercd. 1-4-times as long as stipules. Flowers (7-) 10-13 (-15) mm long, bright yellow to yellowish, sometimes standard violet-veined. Calyx (3-) 5-9 mm long; teeth sub equal, slightly to much longer than tube, lanceolate, acute. Corolla exceeding the calyx. Pods linear-oblong, 18-35 x 4-6 mm, compressed, beaked, reticulately veined, 3 (-7)-seeded. Seed 2-4 mm. sub globular, brown-black, smooth.
Flowering in: Jan-Mar.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
Benghazi Plain: Wadi El-Ghattara 2010 Wadi El-Enaghar 2021 Soloq (Beir Bullerjam) 2022
Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: (4 km) E. of Al-Merj, Wadi El-Hussaien along the coastal road ,Ras El-Hilal-Shahat 1967 Upper strem of Wadi El-Kauf, Wadi El-Kauf 1968 Baida 1970 Shahat, Gubba 1973 Shahat 1978 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi Zaza 2003 El-Hamamah to Biada 2003 S. of AL-Marj 2011 Valley Jarjr-oma 2013 Gaber Jera 2013 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Sidi Abu-Ras 2017 Gernada, Shahat 2021
Marmarica Plateau: Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930 Omm Rezum 1968 (10 km) W. Tobruk 1978 From Tobruk to Egyptian Border 1999 Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002
Notes
Wild in Libya.
This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:501579-1
Link of images: https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/lathyrus/aphaca/, https://www.maltawildplants.com/FABC/Lathyrus_aphaca.php, https://www.cretanflora.com/lathyrus_aphaca.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_gesseaphaca.php, https://www.i-flora.com/en/the-smartphone-apps/iflora-deutschland/species/art/show/lathyrus-aphaca-1.html
For more information
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:501579-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/501579-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000212673, https://www.gbif.org/species/5356649, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/70779/lathyrus-aphaca-l, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/630.html, https://www.maltawildplants.com/FABC/Lathyrus_aphaca.php, https://www.cretanflora.com/lathyrus_aphaca.html, https://www.ksanature.com/plants/lathyrus_aphaca/, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_gesseaphaca.php, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/LATAPH/, https://oregonflora.org/taxa/index.php?tid=5934, https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/lathyrus/aphaca/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lathyrus_aphaca
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Weed Species in A Barley Crops in Beir Bullerjam Region – Soloq, Libya. 2022_compressed
Abusaief, H.M.A. & Boasoul, S.H. (2021) A taxonomic study of twelve wild forage species of Fabaceae. Heliyon 7 (2021) e06077. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021001821, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349574457_A_taxonomic_study_of_twelve_wild_forage_species_of_Fabaceae
A taxonomic study of twelve wild forage species of Fabaceae. 2021_compressed
Omar, N., El-Mghrbi, N.G., Rahil, R.O., Alaib, M.A., Alzerbi, A.K. (2021) Floristic Composition and Plant Diversity of Western Part of Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya. Species-22(70), 2021. pp. (204-217). http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/index.htm, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/A4.pdf
Floristic Composition and Plant Diversity of Western Part of Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya. 2021.-مضغوط
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Plant Species at Wadi Alkuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya 2014
Abusaief, H. M. A. (2013) Life forms and rangeland for many habitats of Jarjar oma in Al-Jabal Al- Akhdar on Mediterranean Sea. Journal of American Science 2013;9(5) http://www.jofamericanscience.org/journals/am-sci/am0905/029_17747am0905_236_249.pdf
Life forms and rangeland for many habitats of Jarjar oma in Al- Jabal Al- Akhdar. 2013
Al-Tajouri, A., Al-Aaeb, M.A., Al-Zarbi, A. K. (2013) Barley crop contamination with weed seeds in Gaber-Jira farms in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. Journal of Benghazi University of Science-the third and fourth edition (45-53). (In Arabic). https://search.mandumah.com/Record/838987
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FLORA AND VEGETATION ON SOUTH EL-MARJ ZONE SOUTH EL-JABAL EL-AKHADAR.2011
El-Rabiai, G.T., Al tira, F.M., Lamlom, S.H. (2010) Preliminary Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. Garyounis University Press Journal of Science and Its Applications Vol. 4, No. 1, pp 39-47, December 2010. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Wz8jpkIAAAAJ&hl=ar, https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ALTsoucAAAAJ&hl=en, https://journals.uob.edu.ly/index.php/sjuob/issue/view/71
Checklist for the Flora of Wadi El Ghattara in Libya. 2010
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://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yacoub-El-Barasi, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahmed-Gawhari, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281559070_Checklist_and_analysis_of_the_flora_and_vegetation_of_Wadi_Zaza_at_AI-Jabal_AI_Akhdar_Cyrenaica_Libya
Flora and vegetation of Wadi Zaza at Al-Jabal AI Akhdar 2003-مضغوط
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.persee.fr/doc/ecmed_0153-8756_2003_num_29_2_1547, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yassin-Al-Sodany, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kamal-Shaltout
Vegetation along an elevation gradient in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. 2003
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