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Family: Fabaceae
Trifolium angustifolium

Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 769 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Narrow-leaved clover.

Description:
Annual, stems ribbed, 8-60 cm long, white-appressed-pubescent, few, one often tall and stiffly erect, the others shorter and ascending, branching at the base; leaflets linear-lanceolate, 10-80 x 1-4 mm, those of the upper leaves acute, of the lower obtuse; stipules lanceolate, subulate, c. 1.5 cm long, green-nerved.

Inflorescence spicate, cylindrical or conical, 15-80 mm long, solitary on peduncles 10-60 mm long; calyx tubular-campanulate, 10-nerved, to 10 mm long, appressed-stiff-hairy; calyx teeth subequal, subulate-setaceous, blunt or acute, ciliate, the apex glabrous or with a few short hairs, stellately spreading in fruit, the calyx throat closed by a hairy bilabiate callosity; corolla purple, pink to white, 10-13 mm long, at most only slightly exceeding the calyx.

Pod scarious; seed reniform, c. 2 mm long, yellow.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 424.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas.   Native to southern Europe; introduced in southern Asia and Africa.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: Aug. — Jan.


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