Dorycnium pentaphyllum Scop.

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Status: Accepted
Genus: Dorycnium Miller
Tribe: Loteae
References: [454][754][908]

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Other names:

• Dorycnium hispanicum Samp. [Synonym] 
  
• Dorycnium suffruticosum Villars [Synonym] [454][754][1893]
  

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Common Names:

• Prostrate Canary Clover [2086]
  

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Descriptors:

• Habit:
  • Herb
  • Shrub
• Lifespan:
  • Perennial
• Stems:
  • Not climbing
• 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
• Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator:
  • 2001-03 Sokoloff DD
• Conservation Status:
  • Not Threatened

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Uses:

• Environmental [2967]
  
• Forage [2967]
  

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Geographical Distribution:

• Africa
  • Algeria [454]
  • Tunisia [454]

• Asia [1862]
  • Iraq [1862]
  • USSR [1862]

• Europe [454]
  • Albania [754]
  • Austria-F.E. [754]
  • Balearic Is [754]
  • Bulgaria [754]
  • Corsica [754]
  • Czechoslovakia [754]
  • France-F.E. [754]
  • Germany [754]
  • Greece [754]
  • Hungary [754]
  • Italy-F.E. [754]
  • Poland [754]
  • Portugal [754]
  • Romania [754]
  • Sardegna [754]
  • Sicilia-F.E. [754]
  • Spain-F.E. [754]
  • Switzerland [754]
  • Turkey in Europe [754]
  • USSR:K-F.E. [754]
  • Yugoslavia [754]

• Middle East [454] [1862]
  • Lebanon [1862]
  • Syria [1862]
  • Turkey in Asia [454]

• Pacific Ocean [2967]
  • New Zealand(North) [2967]
  • New Zealand(South) [2967]

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Notes:

• Quezel & Santa (ref.360) use different specific limits.
  
• 5 subspp.;only the nominate one in Africa (Med-Cklst,ref.454).
  

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Last Update: 14/06/2001 13:16:21