Astragalus arpilobus Kar. & Kir.

General Appearance

Astragalus arpilobus Kar. & Kir. // Infraspecifics: Astragalus arpilobus ssp. hauarensis (Boiss.) Podlech / Homotypic Synonyms: Astragalus hauarensis Boiss, it is an annual herb, up to 25 (-30) cm long, prostrate to ascending, whitish-canescent. Leaves 2.5-10 cm long, stipules triangular-acute, 2-4 mm long, leaflets 3-9, elliptic-oblong to broadly elliptic, truncate or retuse, appressed pubescent, 5-15 mm long. Peduncles shorter than subtending leaves, with 3-5-flowered terminal, lax racemes. Flower 10-13 mm long, white or purple, pedicels 1.5 mm long, bracts minute, hyaline. Calyx 5-8 mm long, tubular, with teeth shorter than tube, white- and appressed-hirsute. Corolla almost twice as long as calyx. Pods (12-) 15-30 (-35) x 3-4 mm. semi-circular, ± cylindrical, tapering at both ends. ending in a short macro and covered with both short-appressed and long preading hairs, almost bilocular, valves separating at maturity, 12-20 seeded.

Flowering in: Jan-Mar.

Life Form

Th

Phytochoria

SS. The native range of this species is N. Africa to Xinjiang and Socotra.

Distribution in Libya

Zliten-Misurata Plain: Misurata 2006

Sirte Plains: (15 km) before Sirte on way to Ejdabia 1977

Benghazi Plain: Wadi El-Ghattara 2010 Wadi El-Enaghar 2021

Notes

Wild, easily recognized by its up to 4 pairs of leaflets, few-flowered racemes, a desert species in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:476259-1

Link of images: https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/taxonomy/taxon/5032.html, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ASTARP/

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:476259-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/476259-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213535, https://www.gbif.org/species/5343755, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/198355/astragalus-arpilobus-kar-kir, https://www.plantarium.ru/lang/en/page/taxonomy/taxon/5032.html, https://www.ksanature.com/plants/astragalus_arpilobus/, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ASTARP/

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. 57. Under- Astragalus hauarensis Boiss.

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

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

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

Al-Dana, S. M. M. (2006) Taxonomic study of wild flower plants in some areas of Misrata. Master Thesis, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Misurata University (7 October previously) Misurata, Libya. (In Arabic).