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Trifolium semipilosum Fresen.

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GENUS: Trifolium L.

Trifolium semipilosum Fresen. [Preferred name]
    Trifolium johnstonii sensu Edwards & Bogdan {Misapplied}
    Trifolium repens sensu Baker f. {Misapplied}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Kenya Clover [1902]; Kenya White Clover [210]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Ethiopia (N) [566]; Kenya (N) [566]; Malawi (U) [210]; South Africa (I) [8]; Tanzania (N) [566]; Uganda (U) [210]; Zimbabwe (I) [8]
  Australasia
Australia (I) [1919]
  Indian Ocean
Reunion (I) [1915]
  Middle East
Yemen (N) [1939]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Afromontane grassland [210];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [24, 210, 566, 1919] ; Illustration [24, 210, 566, 1919]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Herb ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1991/1993 Heyn CC & Heller D, 2005-06 Roskov YR ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1993 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H, 1993 Polhill RM, 2005 (Indian Ocean) Lock JM & Ireland H (JS2005)

  
USES:
  Forage [567, 1919]

  
NOTES:
  Recently introduced to Reunion. [1915]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

8.

  Lock, J.M., 1985
    Specimen in Herb.Kew

24.

  Thulin, M., 1983
    Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

210.

  Gillett, J.B. et al., 1971
    Papilionoideae.In:Fl.Trop.E.Africa,Milne-Redhead & Polhill

566.

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

567.

  Gillett, J.B., 1952
    Kew Bull.7:367-404. Trifolium in Africa

1902.

  Terrell, E.E., 1977
    Checklist of Names for 3,000 Vas.Pl... Agric.Handbook No.505

1915.

  Polhill, R, M., 1990
    Legumineuses.In:Flore des Mascareignes,Vol 80.J. Bosser et a

1919.

  Hacker, J.B., 1990
    A Guide to Herbaceous and Shrub Legumes of Queensland.

1939.

  Lock, J.M. & Simpson, K., 1991
    Legumes of West Asia: A Checklist. RBG, Kew.

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