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  • COMMON NAME: Trefoil rattlepod
  • ARABIC: قرط، نفل
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Crotalaria medicaginea Lam.
  • SYNONYMS: Crotalaria foliosa Willd,Crotalaria zollingeriana Miq,Crotalaria procumbens Roxb, Crotalaria virgata C.Mart, Indigofera capitata Graham
  • FAMILY: FABACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
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://efloraofindia.com/2011/12/09/crotalaria-medicaginea-1/#:~:text=Crotalaria%20medicaginea%20Lam.%20Encycl.%202%3A%20201.%201786.%20Small,long.%20Photographed%20along%20roadsides%20near%20Karnal%20in%20September.
Perennial herb, up to 35 cm high. Stem branched nearly from base, sparsely pubescent. Leaves trifoliate; leaflets 5-10 mm broad, oblanceolate, obtuse to apiculate, glabrous above, hairy below; stipules minute, filiform. Inflorescences a raceme, terminal and leaf opposed, with 2-6 flowered. Bracts small, linear. Calyx 2-3 mm long, teeth acute, hairy. Corolla yellow, hairy, twice as long as calyx. Pod subglobose, 3-4 mm long, pubescent, beaked, 2-seeded. Flowering from August to September.
A weed of gardens and farms.
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