Cicer pinnatifidum
Cicer pinnatifidum
Çakıl nohutu
Slender, procumbent or ascending annual. Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 2-4-paired, cuneate-obovate, 3-7 mm, incised-serrate with few simple teeth, pubescent with numerous glandular and few eglandular hairs. Stipules incised-Iaciniate. Peduncle and pedicel longer than the elongate petiole; awn 0.5 mm. Flowers solitary, 6-9 mm, pink or purple. Calyx subgibbous. Legume broadly ellipsoid, 10-12 mm, glandular-pilose. Seeds 1-3, rugulose-tuberculate. Fl. 4-6. Pinus brutia forest, igneous or limestone slopes, screes, 250-1400 m.
Lebanon, Syria, N.lraq.
C. judaicum Boiss., endemic to Palestine, is very close to the rather variable C. pinnatifidum; it differs from the latter in its shorter petioles, 4-6-paired, doubly incised-serrate leaflets, and less deeply toothed stipules.
