Trifolium pseudostriatum Baker F.

Annual almost glabrous herb; stems prostrate or ascending and up to 40 cm. tall.. Free part of stipules longer than the base, tapering gradually; petioles very short in the upper leaves and rarely over 3 cm. in the lower; leaflets ovate or oblong, cuneate below, rounded or truncate at the tip, up to 28 mm. long by 11 mm. wide; main nerves 20–30 on each side, set at 50°–70° to the midrib, the lowest ones curved outwards.. Inflorescences ± globose, ± 13 mm. across, terminal, usually sessile in the axil of a leaf or a pair of leaves with vestigial petioles; true bracts linear-lanceolate with subulate tips or wholly subulate, up to 5 mm. long; pedicels ± 1 mm. long, mostly not reflexed in fruit.. Calyx with a few hairs at the margin; tube whitish, strongly 10–11-nerved, ± 2·5 mm. long; teeth triangular and with a scarious margin at the base, subulate for three-quarters of their length, 3–4 mm. long, recurved in fruit.. Corolla purple; standard 6·5–7·5 mm. long; blade of wing shorter than the claw.. Stamens ± 5 mm. long.. Ovules 2.. Fruit glabrous, ± 3·5 by 2 mm.. Seeds 2, yellowish-brown, ± 1·4 by 1 mm.