لوطس فلسطيني

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Alternate, trifoliolate with two large stipules resembling additional leaflets. Leaflets obovate to oblong, 10–20 × 4–8 mm, entire or slightly toothed near the tip, glabrous or sparsely hairy on both sides; stipules ovate, foliaceous, nearly as large as the lower leaflets.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Peduncles solitary, axillary, longer than the subtending leaf, bearing 1–2 flowers. Flowers papilionaceous, 12–18 mm long, bright red to crimson (rarely yellowish-red); standard broad, spreading; wings and keel shorter. Calyx campanulate, teeth triangular, about half the length of the tube.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Pod 20–40 mm long, distinctly four-winged along its angles, a diagnostic feature of the species; valves glabrous or sparsely pubescent, seeds numerous, olive to dark brown.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers and fruits from March to June.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Recorded by Mouterde from Beirut , Aley , Saida , and the coastal hills of Mount Lebanon ; rare inland, occasional in disturbed fields and rocky slopes at low to mid elevations.

Native to: Algeria, Baleares, Cape Verde, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, Greece, Italy, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Sardegna, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine (POWO).

Introduced into: Baltic States, Canary Is., Czechia-Slovakia, France, Germany, New South Wales, Portugal, Victoria (POWO).

الارتفاع الموثق

الارتفاع

200 m

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Annual herb, 10–40 cm tall, decumbent to ascending, with slender, branching stems often forming low mats. Stems and leaves sparsely pubescent, green to reddish at nodes.

دورة الحياة

حولية

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Lotus tetragonolobus

الفصيلة

بقولية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

قتاد خطافي

Astragalus hamosus

قتاد فوقي اللسان

Biserrula epiglottis (L.) Coulot

Lathyrus laxiflorus subsp. laxiflorus

Lotus dorycnium subsp. anatolicus