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Lotus angustissimus L.
Family Fabaceae
Subfamily Faboideae
Common name: Slender Birds-foot Trefoil

Lotus angustissimus L. APNI*

Description: Decumbent to ascending annual or perennial herb 8–40 cm high, ± pilose.

Leaves with 5 leaflets, lanceolate to ovate, 3–12 mm long, 1–5 mm wide, lower 2 only slightly smaller than upper ones, apex apiculate.

Umbels 1–3-flowered; peduncles slender, 1–5 cm long, hairy. Calyx 4–5 mm long, ± pilose, teeth ± equal to or longer than the tube. Corolla 5–7 mm long, yellow; keel bent from near the middle, apex straight.

Pod terete, 10–30 mm long, c. 1 mm diam., straight or slightly curved at the apex; seeds mostly 20–30, sometimes as few as 10, brown, smooth.


Flowering: November–December

Distribution and occurrence: Grows in damp sandy soils, south from Grafton, chiefly in the Sydney region. Native of Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC
Other Australian states: *Vic. *Tas. *W.A. *S.A.
AVH map***

Text by E. H. Norris & G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


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