Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Lotus glinoides Delile.

Lotus glinoides Delile

HIGHER TAXON: Loteae

GENUS: Lotus L.

Lotus glinoides Delile [Preferred name]
Lotus ehrenbergii Vierh. {Synonym}

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Algeria (N) [546]; Egypt (N) [546]; Libya (N) [546]; Morocco (N) [546]
Middle East

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Sahara regional transition zone: desert. [368];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [360, 368, 546] ; Distribution Map [546] ; Illustration [368, 529]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Annual ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 2001-03 Sokoloff DD & Kramina TE ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

360.		Quezel, P. & Santa, S., 1962
		Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie et des regions desertiq.merid.1

368.		Jafri, S.M.N., 1980
		Fabaceae.In:Flora of Libya,Pt.86.Jaffri & El Gadi

529.		Ozenda, P., 1977
		Flore du Sahara, Ed.2. Edns.CNRS,Paris.

546.		Gillett, J.B., 1958
		Kew Bull.13:361-81. [Lotus in Africa].