Lotus cytisoides

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Petiolules short; leaflets obovate-triangular.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Peduncles little exceeding the leaves; calyx with oblong-lanceolate teeth shorter than the tube (lateral teeth somewhat shorter); corolla 6–10 mm, the standard slightly exceeding wings and keel.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Pod linear, straight or slightly arcuate, slender, little compressed, c. 3 cm × 3 mm, slightly glossy.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowers March–May.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese localities: Tyr (Mt), Saïda (Gaill., Mt, Pb), Nahr Damour, Beirut (Mt, Np), Ras Beyrouth (Pb), Jounié (Mt), Bouar (Pb), Ile Nakhl (Gb).

Syrian localities: Lattaquié (coast), Ras Chamra.

Native to: Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, NW. Balkan Pen., Palestine, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey (POWO).

⚠️ Taxonomic/diagnostic note: Mouterde treats L. cytisoides as distinct from the closely allied L. creticus by its reduced, non-silvered pubescence and shortly petiolulate leaflets; L. creticus is whiter-silvery and bears sessile leaves. See plate and figure in Mouterde (Pl. CXVI) for habit and leaf/flower details.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Prostrate, shortly pubescent (appressed hairs), green to grey-ashy, with fine, spreading stems 20–50 cm long.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Lotus cytisoides

الفصيلة

بقولية

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قتاد خطافي

Astragalus hamosus

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