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Trifolium subterraneum L.

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Trifolium subterraneum L., Sp. Pl. 767 (1753)
Trifolium subterraneum L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
767
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Trifolium subterraneum L.
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Trifolium subterraneum

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subterraneum

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Trifolium subterraneum L.

Annual; stems moderately to densely hairy, procumbent, not rooting at nodes. Lvs moderately to densely hairy especially on petioles and undersurface of leaflets; petioles c. 10-50-(200) mm long; leaflets broadly obovate, emarginate to obcordate or rarely obtuse at apex, obtuse at base, ± entire or very finely serrate toward apex, often with dark markings, c. 5-15 mm long; lateral veins thin and straight or somewhat recurved to leaflet margin; petiolules c. 1-1.5 mm long, ± equal; stipules ovate, acute. Infls axillary, umbellate, pedunculate, usually ± = subtending lf; fertile fls 2-5-(7), subsessile; sterile inner fls developing after anthesis; bracts 0. Calyx tube glabrous, with indistinct veins, somewhat inflated on all sides at fruiting; throat open, hairy; calyx teeth hairy, subequal, < corolla, linear, < tube, curled at fruiting; sinuses acute. Corolla white or occasionally pink, deciduous, 10-15 mm long. Calyx of sterile fls enlarged and recurved at fruiting enclosing the recurved young pods; infructescence appressed to or buried in soil by elongated peduncle. Pod glabrous, ± straight, < calyx, 2-3 mm long, 1-seeded; seeds c. 2 mm diam.

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Trifolium subterraneum L.
Trifolium subterraneum L.
Trifolium subterraneum L.
Trifolium subterraneum L.
Trifolium subterraneum L.

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Trifolium subterraneum L.
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Trifolium subterraneum L.
New Zealand
Trifolium subterraneum L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Trifolium subterraneum L.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Trifolium subterraneum L.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Trifolium subterraneum L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Trifolium subterraneum L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Trifolium subterraneum L.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Trifolium subterraneum L.
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District
Trifolium subterraneum L.
New Zealand
Southland Land District
Trifolium subterraneum L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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35b8071c-7bc8-4439-9d48-15b8bff218f3
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
21 November 2013
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