Cicer echinospermum

Kirpi nohutotu

Prostrate or procumbent annual, stems 20-35 cm. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 3-5-paired, obovate-oblong, 5-10 mm, ± doubly serrate above, pubescent with few glandular and numerous eglandular hairs. Stipules incised-dentate. Peduncle and pedicel much longer than the short petiole; awn usually less than 1 mm. Flowers solitary, 10-12 mm, dusky-mauve. Calyx subgibbous. Legume broadly ellipsoid, c. 16 mm, glandular-pilose. Seeds c. 2, conspicuously echinate. Fl. 5. Quercus scrub, rocky slopes, grassy places, fallow fields, 700-1100 m.

Endemic; Ir.-Tur. element.