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Dorycnium pentaphyllum Scop.

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HIGHER TAXON: Loteae

GENUS: Dorycnium Mill.

Dorycnium pentaphyllum Scop. [Preferred name]
    Dorycnium hispanicum Samp. {Synonym}
    Dorycnium suffruticosum Vill. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Prostrate Canary Clover [2086]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Algeria (N) [454]; Tunisia (N) [454]
  Asia
Iraq (N) [1862]
  Europe
Albania (N) [754]; Austria (N) [754]; Balearic Is (N) [754]; Bulgaria (N) [754]; Corsica (N) [754]; Czechoslovakia (N) [754]; France (N) [754]; Germany (N) [754]; Greece (N) [754]; Hungary (N) [754]; Italy (N) [754]; Poland (N) [754]; Portugal (N) [754]; Romania (N) [754]; Sardegna (N) [754]; Sicilia (N) [754]; Spain (N) [754]; Switzerland (N) [754]; Turkey in Europe (N) [754]; Yugoslavia (N) [754]
  Middle East
Lebanon (N) [1862]; Syria (N) [1862]; Turkey in Asia (N) [454]
  Pacific Ocean
New Zealand(North) (I) [2967]; New Zealand(South) (I) [2967]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [360, 754, 1862, 2086] ; Illustration [360]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb, Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 2001-03 Sokoloff DD & Kramina TE ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1988 (Europe) ESFEDS, 1990 (New Zealand & Pacific) Horn P, 1991 (W Asia) Lock JM & Simpson K, 1993 Adams BR

  
USES:
  Environmental [2967]; Forage [2967]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

360.

  Quezel, P. & Santa, S., 1962
    Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie et des regions desertiq.merid.1

454.

  Greuter, W. et al. (Eds.), 1989
    Med-Checklist Vol.4 (published)

754.

  Heywood, V.H. & Ball, P.W., 1968
    Leguminosae.In:Flora Europaea Vol.2.ed.Tutin,T.G.et al.

1862.

  Townsend, C.C. & Guest, E., 1974
    Flora of Iraq. Vol.3. Baghdad.

2086.

  Horn, P.E. & Hill, G.D., 1987
    What Legume is That?

2967.

  Technical Officer MWD, 1984
    Streamland 32: Canary Clovers

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