Annual herb ; up to 20 cm tall , with appressed to ascending white hairs . Stems ascending to decumbent , grey-green , branching from the base , pubescent with simple hairs ; hairs basifixed . Leaves stipulate , imparipinnate with 5-8 pairs of leaflets ; leaflets 5-10 x 3-7 mm , oblong-elliptic to linear-oblong , apex acute , white-pubescent . Inflorescences in (1 or)2-8-flowered sessile or subsessile heads . Flowers lilac to white ; calyx tubular , ± 4 mm , lobed above with small acute lobes ± 1 mm , pubescent with white and black hairs ; corolla pink or pinky-white ± 9 mm . Fruit pods , usually in groups of 3-4 , sessile , arched , spreading stellately or erect , white-pilose , partly bilocular . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Not Threatened (NT) - Globoal Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Astragalus minutus Boiss.
Astragalus tribuloides var. minutus (Boiss.) Boiss.
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maintenanceAr.Item1
Caltrops Milk-vetch
Not used traditionally.
*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. *https://www.mobot.org
