Family: Fabaceae
Trigonella monspeliaca
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 777 (1753).
Synonymy: Medicago monspeliaca Common name: None
Description:
Pubescent almost prostrate annual to 35 cm high; leaflets obovate, 5-13 x 4-10 mm, sharply denticulate at the summit; stipules dentate to incised.
Flowers subsessile, 4-18 in subumbellate axillary racemes; calyx c. 3 mm long, pubescent; teeth lanceolate-subulate, slightly longer than the tube; in fruit the axillant leaf deciduous and the pods appearing lateral (in S.Aust. material).
Pod 7-17 x 1-1.5 mm, pendent, linear, slightly curved upwards, pubescent, ribbed transversely with thick oblique veins; seeds rhomboid-ovate, c. 1.5 mm, brown, finely tuberculate.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: NL, MU, YP, SL. A Mediterranean species.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: Sept. — 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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