WorldFloraDB - Trifolium africanum

Characteristics

Perennial herb, 0.10-0.25 m high; stems many, ascending, sometimes prostrate, rooting at nodes, glabrescent to pilose. Leaves with petioles ± as long as leaflets. Leaflets 10-20(-40) x 4-8 mm, oblanceolate to lanceolate, not folded, margins obsoletely spinulose-denticulate. Stipules: free portion triangular-lanceolate, shorter than sheathing lower part. Inflorescences 10-15(-20) mm in diam., semi-globular, many-flowered; bracts not forming involucre. Flowers purple to brick-red. Calyx 5-8 mm long; teeth ± as long as tube, subulate. Petals: standard obovate. Flowering time Oct.-Apr. Pod long, broadly elliptical, exserted from calyx tube, 2-seeded.

More

A herb. It is soft and straggling. It keeps growing from year to year. The branches are 30 cm long. They have few leaves. The leaflets are oval. They are 3 cm long by 1 cm wide. The flower heads are stalked and up to 6 cm long. The flowers are in compact dome shaped heads. They are pink.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
Foliage retention	-
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
Pollination	-
Spread	-
Mature width (meter)	-
Mature height (meter)	0.1 - 0.25
Root system	-
Rooting depth (meter)	1.5
Root diameter (meter)	-
Flower color
Blooming months	-
Fruit color	-
Fruiting months	-
Nitrogen fixer	rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway	c3

Environment

A tropical plant. It can grow in arid places.

Light	-
Soil humidity
Soil texture	-
Soil acidity
Soil nutriment	-
Hardiness (USDA)	-

Usage

The flower is eaten raw.

Uses	animal food fodder forage medicinal
Edible	flowers
Therapeutic use	Diaphoretic (unspecified), Diuretic (unspecified), Food (unspecified), Heart (unspecified), Charm (unspecified), Sore(Throat) (unspecified)
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

Mode	-
Germination duration (days)	-
Germination temperacture (C°)	-
Germination luminosity	-
Germination treatment	-
Minimum temperature (C°)	-
Optimum temperature (C°)	20 - 30
Size	-
Vigor	-
Productivity	-

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Distribution

Conservation status

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:522809-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000212962
COL ID	58PMM
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
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Synonyms

Trifolium africanum Lupinaster africanus Trifolium burchellianum var. africanum

Lower taxons

Trifolium africanum var. africanum

WorldFloraDB 2024

Trifolium africanum Ser.

Erasmus clover, (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Trifolium