Family: Fabaceae
Trifolium cernuum
Citation:
Brot., Phyt. Lusit. edn 3, 1:150 (1816).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Nodding (or drooping) clover, drooping-flower clover. Glabrous or glabmscent annual; stems hollow, prostrate, branching, 10-40 cm long; leaves on long or short petioles; leaflets on short articulate petiolules, ovate-cuneate, 8-18 mm long, strongly nerved and denticulate.
Description:
Flowers c. 5 mm long, 9n pedicels c. 1.5 mm long and strongly deflexed in fruit, subtended by a lanceolate scarious bract shorter than the pedicel, 10-20 (or more) in globose heads 8-12 mm across on short but slender peduncles much shorter than the corresponding leaf; calyx strongly 10-nerved, c. 4 mm long, sparsely pubescent to glabrescent; tube about as long as the pedicel; throat open and glabrous inside; teeth subequal, scarcely as long as the tube, more or less erect; corolla pink, exceeding the calyx; standard deeply notched.
Pod slightly exceeding the calyx, elliptic in outline, 2- or 3-seeded, leathery; seed cordate, c. 1 mm long, yellow or brown, smooth.
Distribution:
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naturalised in temperate regions of Australia.
S.Aust.: SL, KI, SE. W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.; Tas. native of south-western Europe.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Sept. — Feb.
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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:
Not Applicable
Author:
Not yet available
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