Trifolium subterraneum, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 172

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293200

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Trifolium subterraneum
status

 

97. T. subterraneum L. View in CoL , Sp. Pl. 767 (1753).

Annual; stems up to 20(-30) cm, numerous, procumbent. Leaflets broadly obcordate; petioles usually long; stipules semi-ovate. Fruiting-heads globose, appressed to or buried in the soil by the long, deflexed peduncle. Fertile flowers 2—5(—7); corolla 8-14 mm, whitish. Sterile flowers numerous, developing after anthesis, becoming strongly deflexed over the fruiting calyces. Legume 1-seeded, ovoid, somewhat exserted. 2/2=16. Dry grassy places, often on sandy soils. S. & W. Europe, northwards to England, the Netherlands and S.E. Hungary. Al Az Be BI Br Bu Co Cr Ga G r Hb Ho Hs Hu It Ju Lu Rm Rs (W, K) Sa Si Tu.

Very variable in the size of its vegetative parts.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Trifolium

Loc

Trifolium subterraneum

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981
1981
Loc

T. subterraneum

L. 1753: 767
1753
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