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Trifolium amabile

(Aztec Clover)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Aztec Clover

Description

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Family Fabaceae

The Fabaceae are herbs, vines , shrubs , trees , and lianas found in both temperate and tropical areas. They comprise one of the largest families of flowering plants , numbering 630 genera and 18,000 species. The leaves are stipulate , nearly always alternate, and range from bipinnately or palmately compound to simple . The petiole base is commonly enlarged into a pulvinus that commonly functions in orientation of the leaves (sometimes very responsively, as in the sensitive plant, Mimosa pudica). The flowers are usually bisexual , actinomorphic to zygomorphic, slightly to strongly perigynous, and commonly in racemes , spikes, or heads . The perianth commonly consists of a calyx and corolla of 5 segments each. The androecium consists of commonly 1- many stamens (most commonly 10), distinct or variously united , sometimes some of them reduced to staminodes. The pistil is simple, often stipitate , comprising a single style and stigma, and a superior ovary with one locule containing 2-many marginal ovules. The fruit is usually a legume, sometimes a samara, loment, follicle, indehiscent pod, achene, drupe, or berry. The seeds often have a hard coat with hourglass-shaped cells , and sometimes bear a u-shaped line called a pleurogram. [Carr]

Subfamily Faboideae

Mostly herbs, shrubs , or trees . Leaves pinnate or palmate to trifoliolate or apparently simple . Corolla usually, showy, zygomorphic, the petals imbricate, posterior (upper or banner ) petal outermost in bud. Stamens 10 or 9 + 1 (diadelphous ), not showy. Pollen released in monads . Seeds with u-shaped line (pleurogram) lacking. [Carr]

Genus Trifolium

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaf trifoliolate , rarely (not in the local species) digitately 5-9-foliolate, leaflets mostly dentate ; stipules adnate to petiole . Inflorescence a sessile or pedunculate head or short raceme or solitary. Bracts present or absent. Calyx variable, accrescent or inflated , teeth equal or unequal. Corolla pink, red to purple, white or yellow, persistent . Stamens diadelphous , 9+1, vexillary stamens free , anthers uniform . Ovary with few ovules, style incurved , stigma capitate. Fruit usually included in calyx, often indehiscent, 1-2 (-12) -seeded.

A genus with about 300 species, distributed in temperate regions with centres of distribution in the Mediterranean region, Ethiopia, California and Chile; locally represented by 8 species, including 4 introduced species ."Trifolium". in Flora of Pakistan Page 284. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

Physical Description

Habit: Herb • Climbing: Not Climbing

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).Mean = 2,824.630 meters (9,267.159 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,202.700 based on 94 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre.

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Lupinaster amabilis
  2. Lupinaster amabilis (Kunth) C. Presl

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Heyn C.C., Heller D., 1991-1993

Place of publication : F. W. H. A. von Humboldt et al. , Nov. gen. sp. 6:393[folio]; 6:503[quarto], t. 593. 1824

Name verified on 26-Mar-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 26-Mar-2007

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Trifolium

There are approximately 772 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

T. 'White Bunnies' · T. 0~0~0~0~con · T. abbreviatum · T. absadami · T. abyssinicum · T. acaule · T. acutiflorum · T. adulterinum · T. affine · T. africanum (African Clover) · T. aintabense · T. albapurpureum · T. albiceps · T. albidum · T. albopupureum · T. albopurpureaum · T. albopurpureum (Rancheria Clover) · T. album · T. alexandrinum · T. alexandrinum var. serotinum · T. alexandrinus · T. alopecuroides · T. alpestre · T. alpestre var. alpestre · T. alpestre var. durmitoreum · T. alpicola · T. alpicolum · T. alpinum (Alpen Klee) · T. amabile (Aztec Clover) · T. amabile var. amabile · T. amabile var. hemsleyi · T. amabile var. longifoliolum · T. amabile var. longifolium · T. amabile var. mexicanum · T. amabile var. pedicellaris · T. ambiguum (Caucasian Clover) · T. ambiquum · T. ampulescens · T. andersonii (Fiveleaf Clover) · T. andersonii beatleyae · T. andersonii beatleyae var. beatleyae · T. andersonii monoense var. monoense · T. andersonii var. friscanum · T. andinum (Great Divide Clover) · T. andinum Nutt. var. podocephalum Barneby · T. andinum var. andinum · T. andricum · T. anemophilum anemophilum · T. angulatum · T. angustifolium (Narrow Clover) · T. ankaratrense · T. anomalum · T. antucoense · T. antucoensis · T. apertum · T. apulum · T. arachnoideum · T. arcuatum arcuatum · T. argutum · T. aristatum · T. arizonicum lacerum · T. armeniacum · T. armenium · T. arrectisetum · T. arvense (Acker Klee) · T. arvicolum · T. asperulum · T. atlanticum · T. atropurpureum · T. atrorubens atrorubens · T. attenuatum (Rocky Mountain Clover) · T. aucheri · T. aureum (Gold Klee) · T. baccarinii · T. badium (Braun Klee) · T. banaticum · T. barbatum · T. barbeyi · T. barbigerum (Bearded Clover) · T. barbigerum var. andrewsii · T. barbigerum var. barbigerum · T. barbulatum · T. barnebyi · T. barnebyi var. barnebyi · T. bastetanum · T. batmanicum · T. beckwithii (Beckwith's Clover) · T. bejariense (Bejar Clover) · T. bellianum · T. benghalense · T. bertrandi · T. berytheum · T. biasolettianum · T. biceps · T. bicolor · T. bicorne · T. biebersteinii · T. bifidum (Notchleaf Clover) · T. bifidum var. bifidum · T. bifidum var. decipiens

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Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 05, 2007:

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Footnotes

Last Revised: 2008-12-13