Family: Fabaceae
Melilotus alba
Citation:
Medikus, Vorles. ChurpfPhys.Oekon. Ges. 2:382 (1787).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Bokhara clover.
Description:
Erect branched annual or biennial 30-150 cm high; leaflets narrowly oblong-obovate to suborbicular, serrate; stipules setaceous, entire.
Flowers 4-6 mm long, white, in rather loose 40-100-flowered racemes; peduncle 4-15 cm long; wings and keel nearly equal, shorter than the standard; ovary 2-4-ovulate.
Pod ovoid to obovoid, 3-5 mm long, broadly acute, mucronate, glabrous, reticulate-wrinkled, greyish-brown when ripe, with 1 rarely 2 seeds.
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Image source: fig. 352A in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 405.
Distribution:
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W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. native to Eurasia, introduced to America. Cultivated as fodder and spontaneous in some settled districts.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: probably all year round.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
Not yet available
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