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  • COMMON NAME: Lotus platycarpus
  • ARABIC: زرسه
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Lotononis platycarpa (Viv.) Pic.Serm.
  • SYNONYMS: Leobordea platycarpa
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Dubai , Fujairah
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky) Slope (Stony) Sandy
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Wadi Wurayah National Park (WWNP).
Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. https://www.floraofqatar.com/lotononis_platycarpa.htm Gary R. Feulner. 2014. The Flora of Wadi Wurayah National Park Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
Annual, appressed-tomentose herb, 10-20 cm high. Stem much branched, prostrste or ascending. Leaves trifoliolate; leaflets 4-8 mm, obovate-cuneate, obtuse. Stipule 4-7 mm long. Flowers 1-5, about 1 cm long, subsessile in the axils. Calyx 5-4 mm long, pilose. Corolla yellowish-white, keel obtuse, longer than standard and wings. Pod 5-10 mm long, straight or oblique, 6-10 seeded. Seed reniform or nearly spherical, wrinkled, greenish-brown. Flowering from February to April.
Mountain slopes and sandy gravel soil.
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