Flora

Calobota saharae (Coss. & Durieu) Boatwr. & B.-E.van Wyk /Homotypic Synonyms: Spartidium saharae (Coss. & Durieu) Pomel, it is a shrub up to 1-2 m tall, almost leafless, branched with elongated, striated, ± rigid branches. Leaves simple, caduceus, glabrescent. Flowers in lax, terminal racemes, yellow, pedicellate, 1 cm long, pedicels 24 mm, capillary, often reserved at apices, deflexed in fruit. Calyx 3-4 mm long, campanulate, 5-dentate with short. ± triangular teeth, glabrous, standard recurved, c. as long as the keel. Pods 25-50 11×10 mm. flat, compressed, with thickened sutures and somewhat membranous valves. glabrous, oblong, few-seeded.

Jabal Nafusa:  Nafousa 1971  (20 km) from Al Nagaza, roadside. sandy soil 1972   Msallata-Garaboulli Province 2020

Wild,  in N.W. arid or desert areas of Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77100904-1

Link of images: https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/fabaceae/calobota-saharae, https://atlas-sahara.org/Fabaceae/Calobota%20saharae/Calobota%20saharae.html

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77100904-1,  https://www.ipni.org/n/77100904-1,   https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000743469,   https://www.gbif.org/species/4929856,  https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/224714/calobota-saharae-coss-dur-boatwr-b–e-van-wyk,      https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/fabaceae/calobota-saharae,   https://atlas-sahara.org/Fabaceae/Calobota%20saharae/Calobota%20saharae.html