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Lotus cytisoides

Kingdom : Plantae / النّباتات

Division : Spermaphyta / البذريات

Clade : Magnoliophyta or Angiospermae / مستورات البذور

Class : Eudicotyledoneae / ذات الفلقتين

Order : Fabales / رتبة الفُولِيَّات

Family : Fabaceae [Leguminosae] /البُقُولِيَّة أو القَرْنِيَّة  أو الفَرَاشِيَّة أو القَطَانِيَّة أو الفُولِيَّة 

Genus : Lotus

species : cytisoides

Chromosomes: 2n=28

Photos: Merchaoui Henda © DR

Protologue

  • L., Sp. Pl., ed. 1, 776 (1753)
  • Synonyms

  • Lotus prostratus Desf., Fl. Atlant. 2: 206 (1799), non L., Syst. Nat., ed. 10: 1179 (1759).
  • Lotus allioni Desv., J. Bot. Agric. 3: 77 (1814).
  • Lotus patens C. Presl in J. & C. Presl, Delic. Prag. 48 (1822).
  • Lotus creticus subsp. cytisoides (L.) Arcang., Comp. Fl. Ital. 180 (1882).
  • Lotus cytisoides subsp. prostratus Maire in Jahand. & Maire, Cat. Pl. Maroc 2: 402 (1932), nom. inval.
  • Common names

    Tunisia Arabic English French Tamazight

    جديّة
    قرن الغزال

    قرن الغزال
    لوطس

    Grey Birdsfoot Trefoil

    Lotier faux cytise

    Toxic

  • no
  • Edible

  • no
  • Latex

  • no
  • Botanic description

    Genus description

    "Calyx tuhull or bell, with 5 divisions almost equal or 2 lips. Corolla with flat wings, with the upper edges, not welded, hull curved rostrous ascending. diadelphes tamines. Pod almost always protruding with several seeds. Flowers usually yellow, in umbels or 1-3 at the top of peduncles to xia lia ires. Leaves in appearance with 5 leaflets but 2 are actually stipules.

    Species description

    "Plant more or less silky by applied hairs.

    Stems lying or ascending 10-30 cm, a little woody at the base.
    Leaves small sessile leaves more or less long stalked.
    Flowers yellow flowers quite large by 3-8 in umbel with longer stalk than the axillante leaf.Calice clearly bi labiate, with much shorter lateral divisions, obliquely truncated and more or less acute at the top, equaling at most the standard tube emarginated or apiculated at the top, mitered folded in long split horn, closed at the base. Carène à rostre ordinarily Purplish gray, barely longer than the tabs.
    Fruits straight clove reaching 40 mm over 2 mm wide.

    Botanic References

  • Pottier-Alapetite G. (1981). Flore de la Tunisie Angiospermes –Dicotylédones (Apétales- Dialypétale , Première partie). Imprimerie Officielle de la République Tunisienne (Eds),370p.
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  • Biology

    Life form Perennial
    Type form Hemicryptophyte
    Photosynthesis C3

    Phenology

    Blooming
    JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember
    Fruiting
    JanuaryFebruaryMarchAprilMayJuneJulyAugustSeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember

    Map Localization

    Ecology

    Adaptation The plant grows mainly on maritime sands and rocks and on the cliffs of the Mediterranean coast.
    Salt bladder no
    Invasive no

    Geographical distribution

    Localization Biocimatic stage Annuel pluviometry (mm) GPS
    Monastir (Sidi Ghedamssi, Fév. 2016)Inferior semi-arid33135°46'56.83"N / 10°49'59.79"E  35°47'6.50"N / 10°50'0.34"E   

    General uses

  • Pastoral plant for some herbivores like rabbits.
  • Medicinal uses

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    Systems / Organs / Effects

    Dispersion mode

    Germination

    Duration

    Image

    Description of the seeds

    Form
    External structure
    Ornamentation
    Type of seed
    Average length of 10 seeds ± (mm)
    Average width of 10 seeds ± (mm)
    Average thickness of 10 seeds ± (mm)
    Average mass of 100 seeds (g)

    Test results

    TPC DPPH ABTS+ FRAP Year
    mg GAE g-1 MS CI50 g ml-1 CI50 g ml-1 CE50 g ml-1
    12,90± 1,78191,22± 2,48249,48± 3,41866,65± 36,652016
    Total Phenols content(TPC), Anti-radical potentialities against (DPPH, ABTS), Ferric reducing antioxidant power(FRAP)

    Molecules : ADN / Proteins

    Chromosomes : 28 Uniprot NCBI

    Chemical composition

    Name
    Phenolic compounds Polyphenols

    Tunisian references

  • Other references

  • Arambarri AM (1999). Illustrated catalogue of Lotus L. seeds (Fabaceae). In: Beuselinck PR, editor. Trefoil: The Science and Technology of Lotus. Madison, WI, USA: Crop Science Society of America and American Society of Agronomy, pp. 21-41.
  • Degtjareva G, Kramina T, Sokoloff D, Samigullin T, ValiejoRoman C, Antonov A (2006). Phylogeny of the genus Lotus (Leguminosae, Loteae): evidence from nrITS sequences and morphology. Botany 84: 813-830.
  • Report of the scientific activity of Dr Andrey Belimov during the period spent at the Sassari Section of ISPAAM-CNR in the frame of the 2009 CNR- Short Term Mobility Program.
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