Family: Fabaceae
Lotus uliginosus
Citation:
Schkuhr, Handb. 2:412 (1796).
Synonymy: Lotus corniculatus, Lotus pedunculatus Common name: Birds-foot trefoil, greater lotus.
Description:
Erect or ascending perennial with slender hollow stems 20-80 cm long, subglabrous to villous; leaves sessile; leaflets 5, broadly obovate to oblanceolate, 8-25 x 3-15 mm, obtuse, often mucronate, glaucous beneath, lower pair smaller, sometimes obliquely ovate.
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Image source: fig. 345A in J.P. Jessop and H.R. Toelken Ed. 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Ross-Craig (1954) Drawings Brit. Pl. 7:t. 45.
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Distribution:
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S.Aust.: SL, SE.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: No flowering time is available |
SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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