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
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. www.theplantlist.org
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-arid 331 35°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
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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± 1,78 191,22± 2,48 249,48± 3,41 866,65± 36,65 2016 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.