General Appearance
Indigofera sessiliflora DC., it is an annual to biennal, small, richly branched herb, with stiff and canescent white branches, appressedly hairy with medifixed hairs. Leaves imparipinnately (1-) 3-7- foriolate, petiolate, leanets (3-) 4-10 x (2.5-) 3-4.5 mm. oblanceolate or elliptic, obtuse, pubescent on both sides. Stipules linear, small, pubescent. Flowers minute, sessile, in axillary clusters, the red corolla not or hardly exceeding the calyx. Calyx 3-4.5 mm long, with conspicuous, linear teeth, pubescent. Corolla pale rose, not more than equalling the calyx. Pods 6-12 mm long, linear-oblong, torulose, pubescent, 3-6-seeded.
Life Form
Phytochoria
Distribution in Libya
Jabal Al-Uwinat: Gebel Uweinat 1968
Notes
Wild in Libya.
This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499986-1
Link of images: https://atlas-sahara.org/Fabaceae/Indigofera%20sessiliflora/Indigofera%20sessiliflora.html https://www.teline.fr/en/photos/fabaceae/indigofera-sessiliflora
For more information
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:499986-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/499986-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000195174, https://www.gbif.org/species/2972257, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/65472/indigofera-sessiliflora-dc, https://atlas-sahara.org/Fabaceae/Indigofera%20sessiliflora/Indigofera%20sessiliflora.html, https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/indigofera.sessiliflora, https://efloraofindia.com/2020/03/01/indigofera-sessiliflora/, https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Stalkless%20Indigo.html
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. 41.
Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:
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