Lotus rectus

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Stalked, with leaflets glaucous beneath. The lower, stipule-like leaflets are ovate; the larger ones are obovate-triangular, reaching about 2 cm long and 1 cm wide.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: Stalks often twice as long as the leaves bear heads of numerous small, very pale-pink flowers, at most 5 mm long. The bristly calyx has awl-shaped teeth about twice as long as its tube; the standard scarcely exceeds the wings and keel.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Straight, cylindrical, strongly keeled pods, blackish and becoming glossy, more than 1 cm long.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowering April–June.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Saida, Beirut, Antelias, Nahr el Kelb, Tripoli, Abey, Broummana, Araya, Bikfaya, Chtaura, Qabb Elias, Zahle and Bqaatouta.

Syrian distribution: Doummar and Raboue.

Native range: Albania, Algeria, Baleares, Corse, Cyprus, East Aegean Is., France, Greece, Italy, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, Tunisia, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe.

Introduced into: Victoria.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Subshrub or shrub with erect, branched stems, 30–100 cm tall, and appressed hairs on stems and leaves.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Lotus rectus

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