Medicago orbicularis (L.) Bartal.

General Appearance

Medicago orbicularis (L.) Bartal.. it is an annual herb, prostrate or straggling, glabrous or sub glabrous, up to 15-50 cm long. Stipules ovate, incised or laciniate, 2-6 mm long, with narrow, filiform lobes. Leaflets 7-18 x 6-10 mm, obovate-cuneate, mostly serrate-dentate above, retuse, apiculate, Peduncles ± shorter than petiole, later equalling or exceeding it in fruit. Raceme 1-3 (-5)-flowered. Flowers 3-5 mm long. yellow; pedicles longer than calyx. Calyx, c. 3.5 mm long, teeth almost equal to the tube. Corolla c. twice as long as calyx; standard broadly obovate, much longer than wings and keel. Pods with (2-) 3-5 (-7) coils, discoid, 10·15 mm in diam., glabrous or sub glabrous, often turning dark when ripe, not spiny, with thin, somewhat winged or keeled margin, 3-6-seeded in each coil. Seeds trigonous, compressed, c. 3 x2.5 mm, yellow to reddish-brown, rugulose tuberculate.

Flowering in: Mar-May.

Life Form

Th

Phytochoria

MED+SA+IT. The native range of this species is Medit. to W. Himalaya and Ethiopia

Distribution in Libya

Benghazi Plain: Road between Al-Kuwayfyah and Daryanah 1968 Slouk-Msus road 2000 Wadi El-Enaghar 2021

Al-Jabal Al-Akhder: Shahat 1978 Wadi Al-Agar 1999 Wadi (Valley) Stowah region 2007 Al-Mansora 2013 Wadi El-Kouf 2014 Wadi Om-El-Amaym 2019 Al-Baida, Gernada, Labraq, Shahat 2021 Wadi Om-El-Amaym 2024

Marmarica Plateau: Marmarica (north-eastern part of Libya) 2002 Dafna region (Tobruk to Msaid) 2008

Notes

Wild in Libya.

This species is accepted: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:506322-1

Link of images: https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/medicago-orbicularis, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=2576, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/MEDORB/, https://maltawildplants.com/FABC/Medicago_orbicularis.php

For more information

https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:506322-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/506322-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213459, https://www.gbif.org/species/2965299, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/65921/medicago-orbicularis-l-bartal, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/2917.html, https://www.florandalucia.es/index.php/medicago-orbicularis, https://maltawildplants.com/FABC/Medicago_orbicularis.php, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_medicagoorbicularis.php, https://www.apatita.com/herbario/especie.php?id=Medicago_orbicularis, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/MEDORB/, https://dryades.units.it/floritaly/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&tipo=all&id=2576, https://phrygana.eu/Flora/Fabaceae/Medicago-orbicularis/Medicago-orbicularis.html

Bibliographic References

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. 189.

Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest:

El-farse, M.H., Omar. N., Al-Zerbi, A.K., Alaib, M.A. El-Awamie, M.W., Bleiblo, F.A. (2024.) Floristic Diversity, Life-Form Composition, and Anthropogenic Pressures on The Vegetation of Wadi om-El-Amaym in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Northeastern Libya. International Journal for Multidisciplinary Research (IJFMR). Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2024 ● Website: http://www.ijfmr.com, https://www.ijfmr.com/papers/2024/6/33405.pdf, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muftah-Elfarse-2

Floristic diversity of wadi om El-Amaym in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2024

Abusaief, H.M.A. & Boasoul, S.H. (2021) A taxonomic study of twelve wild forage species of Fabaceae. Heliyon 7 (2021) e06077

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021001821, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349574457_A_taxonomic_study_of_twelve_wild_forage_species_of_Fabaceae

A taxonomic study of twelve wild forage species of Fabaceae. 2021_compressed

Omar, N., El-Mghrbi, N.G., Rahil, R.O., Alaib, M.A., Alzerbi, A.K. (2021) Floristic Composition and Plant Diversity of Western Part of Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya. Species-22(70), 2021. pp. (204-217). http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/index.htm, http://www.discoveryjournals.org/Species/current_issue/2021/v22/n70/A4.pdf

Floristic Composition and Plant Diversity of Western Part of Wadi El- Enaghar, Libya. 2021.-مضغوط

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El-Mokasabi, F M. (2014) Floristic Composition and Traditional Uses of Plant Species at Wadi Al-kuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya. American-Eurasian J. Agric. & Environ. Sci., 14 (8): 685-697, 2014, ISSN 1818-769,IDOSI Publications,2014DOI:10.5829/idosi.aejaes.2014.14.08.12375. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/441b/23b83960f007044aca94e26f5c6b170fe102.pdf

Plant Species at Wadi Alkuf, Al-Jabal Al-Akhder, Libya 2014

Abusaief, H. M. A. and Dakhil, A. H. (2013) The floristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar- Libya. New York Science Journal 2013; 6(5). https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Huda-Abusaief

Foristic composition of Rocky habitat of Al Mansora in Al- Jabal Al- Akhdar 2013

Barrani, M. W. (2008) A study of environmental degradation factors in the semi-desert Dafna Region-Libya. Master Thesis-Department of Science and environmental Engineering-Postgraduate Academy Benghazi branch. (In Arabic).

Nawras, A. M. B. (2007) A study of the vegetation cover in the Wadi (Valley) Stowah region. Master Thesis. Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University-Libya. (In Arabic).

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Al-Hamadi R.I. (1999) Floristic and ecological study of Wadi Al-Agar, Master Thesis, Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Botany Department-Faculty of Science-Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya. (In Arabic).

Prodr. Fl. Ciren.: 251 (1931). https://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/records/item/14218-prodromo-della-flora-cirenaica

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