| Fabaceae |
Hammatolobium lotoides |
Hammatolobium FENZL |
| H. lotoides Fenzl, Pug. 3 (1842). Perennial, densely hairy, ± prostrate herbs with a woody base, 10-20 cm. Leaves with 3-5 broadly ovate leaflets. Flowers solitary or up to 3 in an umbel, subtended by a trifoliate bract with leafy segments 5-10 mm long. Corolla 10-14 mm, yellow or purple. Lomentum shortly beaked, pubescent, 1-2.5 cm x c. 2 mm, with 2-6 segments. Fl. 4-5. Open woodland, limestone cliffs, s.1.-300 m. Type: [Turkey C5] in regiones montana Tauri occidentalis, Kotschy 161 (BM!K!). S. Anatolia. C5 Içel: Boulouki nr. Mersina, 23 iv 1855, 5a/.! Adana: 5 miles from Adana to Kozan, 150 m, D. 26629! Hatay: Jab. Moussa (Musa Da.), Delbès 37. C6 Hatay: Dörtyol, Kuzuculu to Bülke, c. 300 m, Coode & Jones 516! Maraş: Maraş, Hb. Post. Greece. E. Medit. element, of isolated taxonomic position |