Flora

Astragalus crenatus Schult. / Heterotypic Synonyms: Astragalus corrugatus Bertol., it is an annual herb, prostrate to ascending, sparingly adpressed-hairy to glabrescent, up to (30) cm long. Leaves 3-5 (-10) cm long, with 11-19 leaflets, stipules hyaline lanceolate or triangular-ovate. 3-4 mm long, sub glabrous, leaflets (3-) 5-10 (-12) mm long, oblong or linear-cuneate, retuse. Flowers 5-8 mm long, violet to whitish, on 1-4 (-7) flowered. pedunculate racemes, shorter or longer than the subtending leaves. Calyx  3-5 mm long, tubular-campanulate with teeth up to half as long. Pods (25-) 30-40 (-50 x (2-) 3 mm. almost cylindrical, semicircular or arcuate, hooked or with a short mucro at tip, glabrous, with prominent reticulated veins (ridges). 10-20 seeded.

Flowering in: Mar-Apr.

Zliten-Misurata Plain:  Misurata (Sassu Valley) 2016

Sirte Plains:  E.of Taworgha, end of Wadi Soigen 1978

Benghazi Plain:  Ajdabia (Al-Bedan) 2016

Al-Jufra area:  Hun 2008

Ghat area:  Ghat, Ak-Barkat 1976

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:476951-1

Link of images: https://atlas-sahara.org/Fabaceae/Astragalus%20crenatus/Astragalus%20crenatus.html,   https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/fabaceae/astragalus-crenatus,  https://www.floraofqatar.com/astragalus_corrugatus.htm

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:476951-1,   https://www.ipni.org/n/476951-1,   https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000204854,  https://www.gbif.org/species/5342673,    https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/145815/astragalus-crenatus-schult,  https://atlas-sahara.org/Fabaceae/Astragalus%20crenatus/Astragalus%20crenatus.html,  https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/fabaceae/astragalus-crenatus,   https://www.ksanature.com/plants/astragalus_crenatus/,    https://www.floraofqatar.com/astragalus_corrugatus.htm,  https://flora.org.il/en/plants/ASTCRA/,  https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.k000895569