Ononis serrata, Forskal

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 148

44. O. serrata Forskâl , Fl. Aegypt. 130 (1775).

Diffuse, procumbent annual 5-30 cm; viscid. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets 6-10 mm, oblong or oblong-linear, dentate, with 4-6 patent or somewhat recurved teeth; lowest bracts 3-foliolate, the upper without leaflets. Flowers shortly pedicellate, borne singly at each node in a dense terminal raceme which elongates after anthesis. Corolla c. 8 mm, white or pale pink, equalling or slightly exceeding the calyx. Legume 6-7 mm. Seeds 2-5, c. 1 mm, brown, minutely tuberculate. Karpathos. Cr. (S.W. Asia, N. Africa.)