| Dicotyledon | Literature for Trifolium dubium
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Fabaceae -- The Pea Family | Bibliography |
| Trifolium dubium | |
Common name(s): clover, trefoil, small hop-clover |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to Europe, widely naturalized.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, Maui, Hawai`i. |
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| Habit |
Annual herbs; stems erect to decumbent, 0.5-3.5 dm long, many-branched, appressed pubescent or glabrate. |
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| Leaves |
Leaflets obovate, 5-12 mm long, 3-7 mm wide, lower surface with scattered long hairs, especially along midrib, margins denticulate in upper part, petiolule of terminal leaflet longer than those of lateral leaflets, stipules ovate, adnate to petioles in lower part. |
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| Flowers |
Heads axillary, globose, 5-8 mm in diameter, peduncles 5-15(-20) mm long, pedicels ca. 2 mm long, bracts absent; calyx tube 0.8-1.2 mm long, 5-nerved, glabrous, upper 2 teeth 0.2-0.5 mm long, lower ones 0.8-1.2 mm long; corolla yellow, 2.5-3.5 mm long, becoming yellowish brown and persistent in fruit. |
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| Fruit |
Pods oblong, enclosed in the calyx. |
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| Seeds |
Seed 1-1.3 mm long.
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 16, 28, 32 |
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