Trifolium purpureum Lois.

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Status: Accepted
Genus: Trifolium L.
Tribe: Trifolieae
References: [811][566]

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Other names:

• Trifolium angustifolium L. Subsp. purpureum (Lois.)Ponert [Synonym] [454]
  
• Trifolium desvauxii Boiss. & Blanche [Synonym] [566]
  
• Trifolium loisleuri Rouy [Synonym] 
  

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Common Names:

• Purple Clover [1862]
  

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Descriptors:

• Habit:
  • Herb
• Lifespan:
  • Annual
• Stems:
  • Not climbing
• Source(s):
  • 1988(Africa)Lock JM
  • 1988(Europe)ESFEDS
  • 1991(W Asia)Lock JM & Simpson K
  • 1993 Adams BR
• Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator:
  • 1991/1993 Heyn CC & Heller D
• Conservation Status:
  • Not Threatened

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Uses:

• Forage [1862]
  
• Weed [1862]
  

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Geographical Distribution:

• Africa [566]
  • Algeria [566]
  • Canary Is [566]
  • Egypt [566]
  • Libya [566]
  • Madeira [566]
  • Morocco [566]
  • Tunisia [566]

• Asia [566] [1861] [1862]
  • Iran [1861]
  • Iraq [1862]
  • USSR [566]

• Europe [566] [754]
  • Albania [754]
  • Azores [566]
  • Bulgaria [754]
  • Corsica [754]
  • France-F.E. [754]
  • Greece [754]
  • Italy [566]
  • Portugal [566]
  • Romania [754]
  • Sicilia-F.E. [754]
  • Spain [566]
  • Turkey in Europe [754]
  • USSR:K-F.E. [566]
  • Yugoslavia [754]

• Middle East [454] [566] [1862]
  • East Aegean Is(Greek) [454]
  • Israel [1862]
  • Jordan [1862]
  • Lebanon [1862]
  • Sinai [454]
  • Syria [1862]
  • Turkey in Asia [454]

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Notes:

• Zohary & Heller give 3 vars.;purpureum,pamphylicum,desvauxii. (ref.566).
  
• Med CL(ref.454) provisionally retains all three as good species.
  
• Recorded in error from Corsica & Sicilia [454]
  

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Last Update: 14/06/2001 13:20:07