Flora

Medicago marina L., it is a perennial plant, up to 20-50 cm, white-tomentous, with a woody stem, long creeping. Leaflets obovate, wedge-shaped, toothed at the top, stipules entire or toothed. Yellow flowers, quite large, 5-10 in very short clusters on non-awned peduncles as long as the leaf, pedicels shorter than calyx tube, wings longer than the hull. Pods cottony, discoid, open in the center, with 2-3 tight whorls, with thick obtuse edges, provided with spread spines, 1-seed in each coil. Seeds 3-3.5 x 2 mm, brown.

Flowering in: Feb-May.

Zliten-Misurata Plain:  Sea shor N. of  Misurata 1967   Leptis Magna 1968,1973,1975     Misurata (Sassu Valley) 2016

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:  El-Hamamah to Biada 2003

Wild, a species occurring in the littoral areas of Libya, easily recognized by its densely villous habit.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:506275-1

Link of images: https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/medicago-marina,  https://www.cretanflora.com/medicago_marina.html,   https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=502573,   https://www.maltawildplants.com/FABC/Medicago_marina.php

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:506275-1,  https://www.ipni.org/n/506275-1,   http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213456,   https://www.gbif.org/species/2965395,  https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/147184/medicago-marina-l,   https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2915.html,  https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_medicagomarina.php,  https://www.maltawildplants.com/FABC/Medicago_marina.php,  https://www.cretanflora.com/medicago_marina.html,   https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/medicago-marina,   https://flora.org.il/en/plants/MEDMAR/,  https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=502573,  https://floradegalicia.wordpress.com/2024/02/23/medicago-marina/,  https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=2573