Annual herb ; up to 30 cm tall , commonly with many branches . Stems ascending to decumbent to prostrate , glabrous to sparsely pubescent , with black and white hairs , branches from the base ; hairs basifixed . Leaves stipulate , imparipinnate with 7-11 pairs of leaflets ; leaflets 7-10 x 1 . 5 mm , linear to oblong , emarginated at the apex , tapering at the base , entire margins , sparsely pubescent , petiolate . Inflorescences in 1-5-flowered terminal racemes . Flowers calyx ± 3 mm , black and white pubescent , lobes acute , pubescent with black and white hairs ; corolla ± 5 mm , violet . Fruit pods , sessile , 20-50 , curved , glabrous , reticulately ridged , beak hooked , partly bilocular , 14-20-seeded , pale green to straw-yellow when mature . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Least Concern (LC) - Global Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Astragalus corrugatus Bertol.
Astragalus quadrisulcatus Bunge
Astragalus tenuirugis Boiss.
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Milk Vetch
Wrinkled Milk-vetch
Not used traditionally. The vernacular names 'qarn al kharouf' and 'abu qrainah refers to the similarity of the fruit to animal's horn. The name 'halaj' is literally means "ring" or "ear-ring" which also referred to fruit shape. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*POWO (2022). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org *Ghazanfar, S. (2007). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.2: Crassulaceae – Apiaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 36). ISBN 9789072619747 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5.
