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Lotus pedunculatus subsp. pedunculatus

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Fabales Family: Fabaceae Genus: Lotus

greater bird's foot trefoil

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Perennial herbs, usually with a woody rootstock.

Stems: Stems erect or prostrate, hollow, 3–10 dm long, vegetative parts glabrate (outside Hawai‘i also villous).

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves compound. Alternate. Leaflets usually obovate, 8–25 mm long, 3–15 mm wide. Leaves appearing trifoliate, but actually pinnately 5–foliate with a basally placed pair of leaflets. Surfaces sparsely long–villous especially toward margins. Leaflet margins entire. Petiolate. Stipules present.

Flowers: Flowers 5–12(–15) in heads, peduncles 1–2 mm long. Flowers papilionaceous. Calyx teeth about as long as the tube, the upper pair separated by an acute sinus in bud, sparsely long–villous, 5-toothed. Corolla yellow, 10–18 mm long, keel often red–tipped, standard obovate, wing petals oblong, auriculate, keel petals as long as wings, curved. Stamens 10; upper stamen distinct, the other 9 connate into a tube, alternately with longer filaments that are widened at apex. Ovary superior; ovules numerous; style 1; style 1, apical, bent abruptly upward at base.

Fruit: Pods straight; dehiscent with twisted valves; cylindrical; 15–35 mm long; 2–2.5 mm wide. Seeds numerous; small.

Ploidy: 2n = 12; 24

Habitat: Pastures.

Elevation Range: ca. 1,340 m.

Historical Distribution

Synonyms (40)

Lotus cantabricus Sennen (1936)
Lotus corniculatus f. hirsutus Wallr. (1822)
Lotus corniculatus proles decumbens (Poir.) Rouy (1899)
Lotus corniculatus subsp. decumbens (Poir.) Merino (1909)
Lotus corniculatus subsp. hirsutus (Wallr.) Schübl. & G.Martens (1834)
Lotus corniculatus subsp. major (Scop.) Ehrh. (1780)
Lotus corniculatus subsp. uliginosus (Schkuhr) Briq. (1913)
Lotus corniculatus subsp. valdepilosus (Schur) Kerguélen (1994)
Lotus corniculatus var. carnosus Wahlb. (1820)
Lotus corniculatus var. decumbens (Poir.) Bolzon (1911)
Lotus corniculatus var. major (Scop.) Ser. (1825)
Lotus corniculatus var. palustris Fr. (1818)
Lotus corniculatus var. uliginosus (Schkuhr) Wallr. (1822)
Lotus corniculatus var. villosus St.-Lag. (1889)
Lotus decumbens Poir. (1814)
Lotus major Sm. (1809)
Lotus major var. pilosus Gray (1822)
Lotus nummularius Rchb. ex Steud. (1841)
Lotus pedunculatus var. glabriusculus (Bab.) O.Bolòs & Vigo (1974)
Lotus pedunculatus var. major (Scop.) Jahand. & Maire (1932)
Lotus pedunculatus var. pilosus (Brand) Jahand. & Maire (1932)
Lotus pedunculatus var. villosus (Lamotte) O.Bol≥s & Vigo (1974)
Lotus pilosus Beeke (1805)
Lotus pisifolius Lowe (1888)
Lotus tenuis subsp. decumbens (Poir.) Nyman (1878)
Lotus trifoliolatus Eastw. (1940)
Lotus uliginosus Schkuhr (1796)
Lotus uliginosus subsp. decumbens (Poir.) Arcang. (1882)
Lotus uliginosus subsp. pisifolius (Lowe) Menezes (1914)
Lotus uliginosus var. brachycarpus Willk. (1891)
Lotus uliginosus var. glabriusculus Bab. (1847)
Lotus uliginosus var. pilosus Brand (1898)
Lotus uliginosus var. pisifolius (Lowe) Lowe (1862)
Lotus uliginosus var. villosus Lamotte (1876)
Lotus valdepilosus Schur (1866)
Lotus villosus Thuill. (1799)
Lotus vindicatus Boenn. ex W.D.J.Koch (1839)
Mullaghera decumbens (Poir.) Bubani (1899)
Mullaghera uliginosa (Schkuhr) Bubani (1899)
Tetragonolobus scandalida Bernh. (1800)

Uses and Culture

USES

  • Yes

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Naturalized
Molokai Naturalized
Maui Naturalized
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • 340 m
  • Description digitized by Tiffany Flood
  • Description digitized from the Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii
  • First collected on Hawai'i in 1938 (Hosaka 2349, BISH).

Bibliography

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:681 (Mo, M, H); Lorence et al. 1995:37 (K)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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