| Family | FABACEAE |
| Genus species | Onobrychis ptolemaica (Delile) DC. trib. Hedysareae |
| Bibliography | Prodr. 2: 347 (1825) |
| Native Range | e. Medit. to Arabian Peninsula |
| Primary Biome | Desert or Dry Shrubland |
| Habitat | dry, sandy grassland |
| Description | adpressed softly lanate, leaflets 4-8-pairs, oblong or elliptic, adaxially glabrous, raceme long, many flowered, calyx lanate, lobes lanceolate-subulate, pod densely lanate |
| Size | 15-20cm |
| Color | yellow |
| Bloom | early spring |
| Ca | |
| Type | subshrub |
| Cultivation | dry, sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, dry, sandy soil, sun |
| Propagation | scarified seed in spring, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C basal cuttings in late spring and late summer |
| Synonyms | Eriocarpaea pinnata Bertol. Hedysarum ptolemaicum Delile Onobrychis gaillardotii Delile Onobrychis lanata Boiss. Onobrychis olivieri Boiss. Onobrychis pinnata (Bertol.) Hand.-Mazz. Onobrychis ptolemaica ssp. macroptera C.C.Towns. Onobrychis sirjajevii Nábělek Xanthobrychis ptolemaica (Delile) Galushko |
| Territory | 2 Africa 20 Northern Africa (EGY Egypt) 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (IRN Iran, IRQ Iraq, LBS Lebanon-Syria, PAL Palestine, SIN Sinai, TUR Turkey) 35 Arabian Peninsula (KUW Kuwait, SAU Saudi Arabia, YEM Yemen) |