Family |
Fabaceae
Cicer incisum
(Willd.) K.Malý
Cicer incisum (Willd.) K.Malý
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 2, Pl. CLXIII nº 2; 1966)
= Cicer incisum (Willd.) K. Maly var. libanoticum (Boiss.)
Life-form & habit: Perennial herb with a thickened underground rhizome; short aerial shoots (5–10 cm) ascending or prostrate, finely glandular-pubescent.
Leaves: Very short, nearly sessile or shortly petiolate; 3–7 small leaflets, wedge-shaped at the base and fan-shaped at the apex, incised or deeply lobed, 2–3 mm long.
Stipules: Nearly as large as the leaves, herbaceous, ovate-triangular, briefly tridentate.
Inflorescence & flowers: Axillary peduncles 2 cm long, uniflorous, clearly exceeding the leaves, jointed at mid-length. Calyx gibbous at base, with long, glandular-pubescent, strongly veined teeth 2–3× longer than the short campanulate tube. Corolla rose-violet (occasionally white by albinism), 10–12 mm long; standard large, hiding the wings and keel.
Fruit: Ovate-rhomboid pod, 10–12 mm, pubescent.
Phenology: Flowers from June to August.
Habitat & elevation: Rocky habitats in high-mountain areas.
Lebanese distribution: Mm-Me. Jabal Sannine, Bechnatta-Denniyé, Foum el-Mizhab, Qornet es-Saouda.
Syrian distribution: Herm. Mount Hermon (Qala‘at Jendel).
Native range: Greece, Iran, Kriti, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Türkey. (KEW)