Medicago astroites
Medicago astroites
Ay yoncası
Syn: Trigonella astroites
Adpressed-pubescent, branched from base; stems prostrate to ascending, 5-25 cm. Stipules lanceolate-acuminate, dentate to entire. Leaflets oblanceolate to obcordate, acutely denticulate towards tip, 4-8 x 2,5-8 mm. Peduncle 1-2 cm. Flowers 6-12, umbellate-capitate. Calyx 2-3,5 mm, campanulate; teeth lanceolate-subulate, somewhat longer than tube. Corolla yellow, 4-5 mm, wings bidentate or emarginate. Legumes linear, straight or sometimes curved, somewhat compressed, stellate-spreading, 10-20 x 0,8-1,5 mm, transversely wrinkled-netted, 4-6-seeded, seed-bearing suture straight, the other subundulate. Seeds oblong, tubercled, 2 x 1 mm. Fl. 4-7. Dry rocky slopes, steppes, maquis, pine forests, cultivated land, s.I.-1750 m.
Syrian Desert, Anti-Lebanon, Palestine, Transcaucasia, N. Iraq, N. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.
