Family: Fabaceae
Trifolium suffocatum
Citation:
L., Mant. Alt. 276 (1771).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Suffocated clover.
Description:
Prostrate tufted glabrescent annual, branches 1-10 cm long, internodes rarely reaching 1 cm; leaves on 1-10 cm long petioles, arising from the base of the plant; leaflets on petiolules c. 0.5 mm, obovate-cuneate, 3-8 mm long, emarginate; stipules ovate, 5-8 mm long including the filiform-acuminate tip, distinctly nerved, scarious.
Flowers 5-10 (or more), subtended by a small lanceolate scarious bract, slightly longer than the pedicel, in numerous sessile confluent or somewhat separated and ovoid heads 5-10 mm across; calyx 10-nerved, sparsely pubescent at first, glabrescent, c. 4 mm long, hardened in fruit; teeth subequal, lanceolate or subulate, usually shorter than the tube, recurved or falcate in fruit; corolla white, included within the calyx; standard obovate-oblanceolate, to 3 mm long.
Pod enclosed, elliptic, 2-seeded, leathery, sometimes constricted between the seeds; seed cordate, c. 0.8 mm long, light-brown, faintly papillose.
Published illustration:
Ross-Craig (1954) Drawings Brit. Pl. 7:pl. 34.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: EP, YP, SL, SE. W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas. Native to Europe and the Mediterranean.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Oct. — Dec.
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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:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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