Trifolium lugardii Bullock

First published in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1932: 494 (1932)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Uganda to Kenya. It grows primarily in the montane tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Insufficiently known
Ecology
Africa: Afromontane(upland) bushland and thicket., Afromontane grassland
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Not climbing, Herb
[ILDIS]

Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971

Morphology General Habit
Erect subglabrous annual up to 60 cm. tall.
Morphology Leaves
Stipules up to 3 cm. long, the free part about as long as the attached part, tapering gradually to a thread-like tip; petiole up to 6 cm. long, the free part in the upper leaves usually shorter than a leaflet; leaflets lanceolate to narrowly oblong, rounded or acute at the tip, up to 45 by 9 mm.; teeth small, subulate-tipped; main nerves 25–30 on each side, usually branched, rather curved, at ± 40° to the midrib.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescences subglobose, ±30-flowered, ± 2 cm. across; peduncle ±6 cm. long, pilose near the top; outer bracts greenish, stiff, broadly lanceolate with subulate tips, 5–10-nerved, up to 12 mm. long, sometimes toothed, forming an involucre; inner bracts linear-lanceolate, scarious, ± 6 mm. long; pedicels ± 2 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx-tube whitish, ± 30-veined, 3–4 mm. long, inflated and splitting irregularly in fruit; teeth narrowly triangular, tapering gradually to subulate tips, 7–8 mm. long, exceeding the purplish corolla.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
Standard 9–10 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
Stamens ± 7 mm. long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary Ovules
Ovules ±4.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Pod glabrous, ± 4 by 2 mm., asymmetric, the ventral suture bulged out beyond the base of the style.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
Seeds 4, yellowish-brown, oblong, ±2 by 1–4 mm., the hilum at the end.
Habitat
Upland grassland and forest margins, especially in damp places; 1800–2550 m.; rainfall 1100–1900 mm.
Distribution
K3 K5 U1 U3 endemic
[FTEA]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0