Family |
Fabaceae
Trifolium glanduliferum var. nervulosum
(Boiss. & Heldr.) Zohary
Trifolium glanduliferum var. nervulosum (Boiss. & Heldr.) Zohary
First published in Fl. Palaestina 2: 175 (1972).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 2, pp. 295–296, Pl. CXII, 1; 1970)
Description
Life-form & habit: Annual herb with erect or spreading stems 10–40 cm long; hairless and without glands or only very weakly glandular.
Leaves: Leaflets ovate to oblong-linear, conspicuously veined and finely toothed. Stipules joined for much of their length, with a blunt free portion and cut-toothed, non-glandular margins.
Inflorescence & flowers: Heads on stalks much longer than the neighbouring leaves, without an involucre. Calyx tube 10-veined; teeth narrowly pointed and slightly unequal, the longest usually exceeding the tube. Corolla pink or occasionally white, more than twice as long as the calyx.
Fruit: Oblong pod slightly protruding from the calyx and abruptly narrowed into a beak about as long as the pod body. Fruiting calyx does not enlarge.
Flowering and habitat
Phenology: Flowering March–May.
Habitat & elevation: Grassy places and woodland.
Distribution
Lebanese distribution: Nahr Ghadir, Ouzai, Bir Hassan, Beirut, Ras Beirut, Nahr Beirut, Tripoli, Beit Meri, Abey, Bikfaya, Jabal Terbol, Baskinta, Faraya, Dhour Choueir, Mdeirej, the pass above Machghara, Zellaya–Yohmor, Tlail, Yanta and Bqaatouta.
Syrian distribution: Tartous, Qalaat Marqab, coastal Banias, Safita, Ain Halakim, west of Homs, Qalaat el Hosn, Akkari–Tell Kalakh, Homs, Jabal Qasyoun, Quneitra, Massade, Banias in the south, Salkhad–Kafer, Soueida–Sale and Qanaouat.
Native range: Albania, Greece, Lebanon-Syria, Palestine, Sinai, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe.
⚠️ Taxonomic note:
Described in Mouterde as Trifolium nervulosum Boiss. & Heldr.; Kew accepts it as Trifolium glanduliferum var. nervulosum (Boiss. & Heldr.) Zohary.