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Trifolium purpureum Loisel.

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HIGHER TAXON: Trifolieae

GENUS: Trifolium L.

Trifolium purpureum Loisel. [Preferred name]
    Trifolium angustifolium ssp. purpureum (Loisel.)Ponert {Synonym}
    Trifolium desvauxii Boiss. & Blanche {Synonym}
    Trifolium loisleuri Rouy {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Purple Clover [1862]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Algeria (N) [566]; Canary Is (N) [566]; Egypt (N) [566]; Libya (N) [566]; Madeira (N) [566]; Morocco (N) [566]; Tunisia (N) [566]
  Asia
Iran (N) [1861]; Iraq (N) [1862]
  Europe
Albania (N) [754]; Azores (N) [566]; Bulgaria (N) [754]; Corsica (U) [754]; France (N) [754]; Greece (N) [754]; Italy (N) [566]; Portugal (N) [566]; Romania (N) [754]; Sicilia (N) [754]; Spain (N) [566]; Turkey in Europe (N) [754]; Yugoslavia (N) [754]
  Middle East
East Aegean Is(Greek) (N) [454]; Israel (N) [1862]; Jordan (N) [1862]; Lebanon (N) [1862]; Sinai (N) [454]; Syria (N) [1862]; Turkey in Asia (N) [454]

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [368, 455, 566, 754, 1861, 1862] ; Illustration [368, 566, 1861, 1862]

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, 1991 (W Asia) Lock JM & Simpson K, 1993 Adams BR

  
USES:
  Forage [1862]; Weed [1862]

  
NOTES:
  Recorded in error from Corsica & Sicilia [454]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

368.

  Jafri, S.M.N., 1980
    Fabaceae.In:Flora of Libya,Pt.86.Jaffri & El Gadi

454.

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

455.

  Tackholm, V., 1956
    Students'Flora of Egypt. Anglo-Egyptian Bookshop, Cairo.

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.

1861.

  Rechinger, K.H., 1984
    Flora Iranica. 157: Papilionaceae II.

1862.

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