Family: Leguminosae
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Medicago monspeliaca (L.) Trautv.
Collector/Expedition: Collenette, Iris Sheila
Collection number: 9435
Collection date: 1st April 1997
Country/Territory: Saudi Arabia
Collecting locality: Saudi Arabia:Wadi Sakharah, twixt Taif and Hadad
Habitat: In hard sand - among olives, junipers, Dodonae
Description: Dwarf prostrate herb with a few radiating stems to 4.5 cm long. Yellow flowers less than 1 mm long in small heads. 3-foliolate minuetley serrate leaves. Hemispherical heads 1.4 cm [?], of narrow claw-shaped pods. Some of the stems root at a node. Rare. Seen only locally
Miscellaneous notes: Repeat 9422
Kind of specimen: HERBARIUM SPECIMEN/SHEET
Barcode: E00092858
Herbarium region: 2A_ARABIA (Arabian Peninsula)
Number of sheets: 1
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