Version 10.38 20 July 2010 - Scientific Names: Trifolium ligusticum Loisel..

Trifolium ligusticum Loisel.

HIGHER TAXON: Trifolieae

GENUS: Trifolium L.

Trifolium ligusticum Loisel. [Preferred name]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:

Africa: Algeria (N) [566]; Canary Is (N) [566]; Madeira (N) [566]; Morocco (N) [566]; Tunisia (N) [566]
Australasia: Australia (I) [1880];
Europe: Azores (N) [754]; Balearic Is (N) [754]; Bulgaria (U) [454]; Corsica (N) [754]; France (N) [754]; Germany (I) [754]; Greece (U) [454]; Italy (N) [754]; Kriti (N) [454]; Portugal (N) [754]; Sardegna (N) [754]; Sicilia (N) [454]; Spain (N) [754]; Turkey in Europe (N) [454]
Middle East: Lebanon-Syria (N) [454]; Turkey in Asia (N) [454]

HABITATS:
  Africa
    Mediterranean bushland & thicket [360];
    Mediterranean woodland. [360];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
	Description [360, 566, 754] ; Illustration [566]

DESCRIPTORS:
	Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Annual ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1991/1993 Heyn CC & Heller D, 2005-06 Roskov YR ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1988 (Europe) ESFEDS, 1993 Adams BR

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)

566.		Zohary, M. & Heller, D., 1984
		The Genus Trifolium. Jerusalem.

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

1880.		Hnatiuk, R.J., 1990
		Census Australian Vasc. Plants, Bureau Fl. & Fauna, Canberra