Citation: Viv., Fl. Lib. 45 (1824).

Synonymy: ?T, filiforme L., Sp. Pl. 773 (1753), nora. ambig. , Trifolium filiforme

Common name: Slender suckling clover.

Description:
Slender annual, stems 2-20 cm long, procumbent or ascending, glabrescent; leaflets obovate or obcordate, to 5 (or rarely 8) mm long, with 4-9 pairs of lateral veins; terminal leaflets subsessile, their petiolules subequal; stipules oblong or ovate, longer than the petiole.

Flowers 1-5 in a loose head on reflexing pedicels longer than the calyx tube; peduncle capillary, usually exceeding the corresponding leaf; calyx c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous; teeth unequal, the upper 2 shortest, the lower 3 longer than the lower limb of the calyx tube; corolla 1.5-4 mm long, yellow, becoming yellowish-brown after anthesis; standard oblong, folded, nearly smooth.

Pod ovoid, 1.5-2 mm long, slightly compressed laterally, scarious 1- seldom 2-seeded; seed ovoid, c. 1 mm long, brown, smooth.

Image source: fig. 353J in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Ross-Craig (1954) Drawings Brit. Pl. 7:pl. 41.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL.   W.Aust.   Native to Europe and the Middle-East. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Nov.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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