Fabaceae |
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Trifolium repens L. var. repens |
Trifolium repens L. var. repens |
Trifolium repens L. var. repens |
Trifolium L. |
T. repens L., Sp. PL 767 (1753). A. G. Erith, White Clover - a Monograph on T. repens L. (1924). Prostrate perennial 10-30 cm, rooting at the nodes. Leaves with long petioles; leaflets 1-2 cm, broadly obovate, rounded or retuse at the apex; stipules broad at the base with a short subula. Inflorescence umbellate, 1.5-4.0 cm diam., 20-40-flowered, peduncles much longer than the subtending leaves. Flowers white or pinkish, fragrant; pedicels as long as the calyx at least, -soon deflexed. Calyx 2-6 mm, campanulate, 10-nerved; teeth unequal, lanceolate. Corolla 4-12 mm. Legume usually 3-4-seeded. Fl. 3-9. 1. Umbels to 3.5 cm diam.; leaflets 1-4 cm var. giganteum 1. Umbels to 2 cm diam.; leaflets smaller 2. Umbels 1.5-2.0 cm diam.; flowers 5-(8-10) mm var. repens 2. Umbels to 1 .2 cm diam.; flowers 4-8 mm 3. Flowers pink; pedicels glabrous var. orphanideum 3. Flowers white; pedicels hairy var. macrorrhizum var. repens. Figure 4, p. 399. Syn: T. repens L. var. genuinum Aschers. & Graebn., Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. 6(2):498 (1908). Ic: Ross-Craig, Draw. Brit. Pl. 7: t. 37 (1954). Marshy ground, pasture, etc. 500-2700 m. Described from Europe (Hb. Cliff.!). Scattered, chiefly in the North. A1(A) Çanakkale: Erenköy, Sint. 1883:29b. A2(E) Istanbul: Therapia, 1 viii 1892, Azn.! A2(A) Istanbul: Paşabahçe to Polonezköy, 2 vi 1940, B. Post ! A3 Bolu: 25 km from Bolu to Adapazari, c. 500 m, McNeill 251! A5 Çorum: 20 km from Alaca to Sungurlu, 1200 m, Coode & Jones 1655! A7 Trabzon: Zigana pass, 2000 m, Furze 3891! A8 Çoruh: Şavval Tepe above Murgal, 2200 m, D. 32363! A9 Kars: nr. Kötek, 28 vi 1967, Ross! B9 Bitlis: Tatvan, 1750 m, D. 22188! B10 Ağri: between Doğubayazit and Iğdir, 2050 m, M. Zohary & Plitmann 2265-90! C2 Antalya: Yuva Y., D. 14227! C6 Gaziantep: Aintab (Gaziantep), Haradj. 1318! C10 Hakkari: d. Yüksekova, Sat Da., 2700 m, Duncan & Tait 108! Temperate Eurasia. Introduced in N. America, S. Africa and Australasia. Much cultivated for fodder, |