SPECIES DESCRIPTION
TRIFOLIUM GLOMERATUM
Family and Genus:- See- LEGUMINOSAE/Subgen. LOTOIDES/Sect.
Common Names:- Flat-headed or clustered clover
Homotypic Synonyms:- Amoria glomerata, Micrantheum glomeratum,
Microphyton glomeratum.
MMeaning:- Trifolium (L) With three leaflets.
Glomeratum (L) With small clusters of heads.
General description:- Ascending to suberect, subglabrous annual.
Stems:-
1) (2-)10-20(-35) cm, numerous, usually branched from the base, procumbent or
ascending. Internodes 10-80 mm.
Leaves:-
1) Leaflets, 5-10(-20) mm, obovate-cuneate, obtuse, lateral veins forked towards the
margin and ending in small, sharp teeth.
2) Petioles, 10-20(-70) mm.
3) Stipules, scarious with conspicuous veins and a green, lanceolate-acuminate
free part.
Flowers:-
1) Heads, 8-12 mm wide, 15-30-flowered. globose, dense, sessile or subsessile,
mostly remote.
2) Calyx-tube, glabrous with 10(-12) distinct veins, a little longer than the teeth.
a) teeth, subequal, triangular-ovate, auriculate, acuminate, deflexed.
3) Corolla, 4-5 mm, longer than calyx, pale pinkish, persistent and fading dark to
brown.
Fruit:-
1) Legume, (1-)2-seeded.
Key features:-
1) Heads, 15-30-flowered sessile, ± remote.
2) Internodes, 10-80 mm.
3) Corolla, longer than the calyx.
Habitat:- Seasonally damp meadows, fallow fields, olive groves, open coniferous
and deciduous woodland, generally, 0-800 m. (occasionally to 1650 m.).
Distribution:- Scattered throughout Greece. - SW Europe, Mediterraneam region,
extending to Cyprus, Anatolia and Iran. fairly widely scattered across Crete.
Flowering time:- Mar-June
Photos by:- Francesco Russo
