Flora

Trigonella gladiata Steven ex M.Bieb., it is an annual herb, up to 5-25 cm, lying or ascending, hairy; leaflets oblong in corner, toothed at the top, entire stipules. Whitish flowers, quite small (8-10 mm), solitary or twinate, sessile in the leaf axils. Calyx very hairy, with equal teeth, shorter than the tube, standard longer than the wings and the obtuse hull. Pods erect, 2-4 cm long, linear-lanceolate, arcuate, hairy 1 with projecting longitudinal veins, ending in a beak 1 to 2 cm long, 4-8 ovoid seeds, strongly tubercular, reddish.

Flowering in: Apr-Jun.

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder:  Reported from Wadi El-Kauf, Faidia, Slonta by Keith

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:523965-1

Link of images: https://www.actaplantarum.org/flora/flora_info.php?id=7968,   https://agroatlas.ru/en/content/related/Trigonella_gladiata/index.html,  https://www.apatita.com/herbario/especie.php?id=Trigonella_gladiata

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:523965-1,  https://www.ipni.org/n/523965-1,   https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000212945,  https://www.gbif.org/species/5360432,   https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/148222/trigonella-gladiata-m-bieb,  https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/3843.html,  https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_trigonellagladiata.php,   https://agroatlas.ru/en/content/related/Trigonella_gladiata/index.html,  https://osogovonature.com/2022/05/02/trigonella-gladiata-m-bieb/,  https://www.actaplantarum.org/galleria_flora/galleria1.php?id=2319,   https://bgflora.net/families/fabaceae/trigonella/trigonella_gladiata/trigonella_gladiata_en.html,     http://www.apatita.com/herbario/especie.php?id=Trigonella_gladiata,  https://www.orchid-nord.com/Flore-France/Fabaceae/Trigonella%20gladiata/Trigonella%20gladiata.html