Medicago secundiflora Durieu.

General Appearance

Medicago secundiflora Durieu., it is an annual herb, 3-12 cm, lying or ascending, covered with whitish hairs. Leaflets obovate or oblong, stipules lanceolate, entire or with 2 teeth at the base. Yellow flowers, very small, few in number, 3-10 in short, somewhat loose clusters, peduncles longer than the leaf. Calyx with linear-setaceous lobes, equal to or exceeding the corolla. Very small pod, softly hairy, kidney-shaped, veined in a network on the faces, with arcuate veins, diverging to the right and left of the central axis, with 1 oblong seed devoid of tubercle at the umbilicus.

Life Form

Th

Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is S. France to NE. Spain, Baleares, N. Africa.

Distribution in Libya

Jabal Nafusa: Reported from Mesellata, Gharian by Pampanini (but needs confirmation from our area, Sometimes cultivated as forage) Msallata National Park (Shaafeen) 2013

Notes

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:506419-1

Link of images: https://www.gbif.org/taxon/3YNPJ

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:506419-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/506419-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213474, https://www.gbif.org/taxon/3YNPJ, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/147244/medicago-secundiflora-durieu, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2925.html, https://www.floraprotegida.es/flora-vulnerable.php/Medicago-secundiflora-68/

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. 188.

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

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).