| Medicago rigidula (L.) All., it is an annual or biennial plant 10-50 cm, prostrate, hairy or pubescent. Leaflets obovate, wedge-shaped, toothed, lacinated stipules. Yellow flowers, 1-2, rarely 3-6, on awned peduncles shorter or longer than the leaf, pedicels shorter than calyx tube, wings shorter than the hull. Pods pubescent or hairy, discoid-sub cylindrical or barrel-shaped, convex at both ends, with 4-6 tight whorls, with thick, rounded edges, equipped with spaced, spreading, conical, hooked spines. Seeds not arched. Life Form: Th, Flowering in: Mar-May, Vern:————, Phytochoria: MED, The native range of this species is Medit. to Central Asia. Notes: Wild in Libya.
For more information: https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:20011853-1, https://www.ipni.org/n/20011853-1, https://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000213465, https://www.gbif.org/species/2965438, https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/147220/medicago-rigidula-l-all, https://www.preservons-la-nature.fr/flore/taxon/726.html, https://www.florealpes.com/fiche_luzerneraide.php, https://flora.org.il/en/plants/medrig/, http://www.menudanatura.com/2016/05/medicago-rigidula-l-all.html, https://dryades.units.it/euganei/index.php?procedure=taxon_page&id=2582&num=2317, https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/107706/tab/fiche, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicago_rigidula |
| Distribution in Libya | |
| Tripolitania | Al-Jabal Al-Akhder |
| Reported from Tripolitania by Pampanini and Keith | El-Hamamah to Biada 2003 |
| 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. | |
| Second: Researches and PhD theses, master theses, Sorted by Newest: | pdf files |
| Al-Sodany, Y. M., Shehata, M. N. & Shaltout, K. H. (2003): Vegetation along an elevation gradient in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar, Libya. ecologia mediterranea, tome 29, fascicule 2, 2003, p. 125-138. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yassin-Al-Sodany, https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kamal-Shaltout | Vegetation an elevation in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar 2003 |
