Trifolium isthmocarpum Brot.

Family: Fabaceae

General Appearance

Trifolium isthmocarpum Brot., it is an annual herb, erect, sometimes procumbent, up 10 50 cm long, glabrous. Stipules membranous, amplexicau1, subulate at apex. Leaflets obovate, rounded at apex, 10-25 mm long; petioles up to 10 cm long. Flowering heads hemispherical or cylindrical, dense, many-flowered, 15-25 mm wide, on 20-100 mm long peduncles, exceeding the subtending leaves. Flowers 9-12 mm long, pink, pedicels not exceeding the calyx-tube, not or weakly deflexed. Calyx whitish, 10-nerved, teeth sub equal, up to as long as the lube. Corolla 1.5-2 times as long as calyx. Pods oblong-ovoid, oblong or reniform, constricted between the 2 seeds.

Life Form

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Phytochoria

MED. The native range of this species is Madeira, W. & Central Medit.

Distribution in Libya

Al-Jafarah Plain:  Tripoli, Ain Zara 1913

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. 228.

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

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