> Thulin (1993) Fagonia Flora of Somalia 1: 184-186

Plants annual or perennial herbs to about 30 cm tall, erect or ascending,  almost glabrous to mre or less densely pubescent with short, glandlar hairs. stems striate. Most leaves with3 leaflets, the uppermost and lowermost sometimes with only 1 leaflet, stipulate; stipules spinescent, up to 10-23 mm long;leaflets linear to oblong or ower leaves occasionally elliptic, 7-30 mm long, 1-4(-11) mm wide, apiculate. Pedicels 3-10 mm lon. Sepals lanceolate, 2.8-3.2 mm long, glabrous or glandular, apiculate, usually sooooon falling, sometimes persistent; petals pink, 3.5-5 mm long, obtuse, apiculate; styles 1.5-2 mm long. Fruits 4-5 mm long; seeds about 2.8 mm long.

Fagonia schweinfurthii grows in open, rocky places on limestone or gypsum at 0-100 m, regions N1-3, C1,2 and S1 of the Flora of Somalia and in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Northeast Kenya, southern Arabia and east to Pakistand and India.  

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H. Pickering & A.I. Awale (2018) Introduction to the plants of Central Somaliland

Habit annual or perennial herbs.

Most leaves with 3-leaflets but uppermost and lowermost with 1 leaflet, stipules spiny, well over 6 mm long, leaflets 7-30 mm long.

Flowers pink, about 7-12 mm across, styles 1,5-2 mm across.