Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 766 (1753).

Synonymy: T. ornithopodioides (L.)DC. in Lam. & DC., Fl. Franc. edn 3, 4:550 0805).

Common name: Birds-foot fenugreek, birds-foot trefoil.

Description:
Prostrate glabrescent annual or short-lived perennial, stems 5-20 cm long; leaves on 2-5 cm long petioles; leaflets subsessile, oblanceolate to obovate, 4-14 mm, denticulate above to almost truncate, glabrous or sprinkled with a few hairs; stipules ovate-lanceolate, 5-10 mm long, acuminate, entire, markedly veined.

Flowers few (1-5) in loose head(s), on peduncles to 8 mm long, shorter than the corresponding leaf; bracts ovate-acute, c. 1 mm long, scarious, often long-ciliate; calyx 5-6 mm long, tube narrow, 2-2.5 mm long, 10-nerved, almost glabrous, teeth subequal, setaceous, longer than the tube; corolla white or pinkish, standard narrowly oblong, c. 3 times as long as the calyx tube.

Pod reniform-falcate, 6-8 mm long, distinctly exserted, glabrescent, 2-4-seeded; seed obliquely globose, c. 1 mm, brown or light-brown, with dark spots.

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

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 428.

Distribution:  In wet places. S.Aust.: FR, NL, MU, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas.   New Zealand; native to Europe and North Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Oct. — Dec.

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

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