Flora

Crotalaria microphylla Vahl, it is a small, decumbent, slender herb with thread-like branches, glabrous or strigose-pubescent. Leaves 3-foliolate, with short petioles, leaflets narrow, oblong or oblong-obovate, up to 10 mm long, glabrous above, thinly silky below. Flowers 1-2 together, yellow-white (the standard yellow, keel white to yellow, veined with mauve). The fruits are plump, measuring 1-1.5 cm in length, they are filled with air under a certain pressure.

Tibesti area:  Reported from Tibesti by Keith

Wild. I have not found a recent record of this species in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488502-1

Link of images: https://www.ksanature.com/plants/crotalaria_microphylla/,   https://www.gbif.org/taxon/ZNT5

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:488502-1,   https://www.ipni.org/n/488502-1,  https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000186898  https://www.gbif.org/taxon/ZNT5,   https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/64312/crotalaria-microphylla-vahl,  https://www.ksanature.com/plants/crotalaria_microphylla/,    https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Crotalaria.microphylla,  https://www.biosurveys.org/taxon/crotalaria-microphylla-1116870