Flora

Ebenus armitagei Schweinf. & Taub., it is a small shrublet, similar to the Ebenus pinnata Aiton, but leaves generally digitately 3-foliolate, with obovate or oblanceolate-oblong leaflets, stipules broadly ovate, with usually emarginate, 2(-3)-dentate at the apices. Inflorescence head-like spikes, corolla 2-3 times, shorter than the calyx-teeth which is c. 3 times as long as the tube, ovary globose, villous, style glabrous. Pod small, 1-seeded, included within calyx.

Flowering in: Jan-Mar.

Marmarica Plateau:  Reported in Marmarica north-eastern part of Libya by Pampanini 1930

Wild in Libya, a species confined to the N.E. Libya., on sea-shore rocks.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:493611-1

Link of images: https://www.gbif.org/taxon/38C9H

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:493611-1,  https://www.ipni.org/n/493611-1,   https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000204616,   https://www.gbif.org/taxon/38C9H,   https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/146332/ebenus-armitagei-schweinf-taub,   https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.k000393518