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.

Image source: fig. 352A 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. 405.

Distribution:    W.Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   native to Eurasia, introduced to America. Cultivated as fodder and spontaneous in some settled districts. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: probably all year round.

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

Biology: No text

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