Trifolium stenolobum Rydb.

  • Authority

    New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.

  • Family

    Fabaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Trifolium stenolobum Rydb.

  • Description

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    Species Description - A densely cespitose and scapose perennial. Branches of the caudex covered by the large stipules which are 2 cm. long; petioles 5-10 cm. long, finely strigose; leaflets 3, narrowly lanceolate or oblanceolate, 1.5-4 cm. long, finely strigose, very acute or acuminate: scape 1-1.5 dm. long: heads many-flowered; bracts minute; flowers reflexed in fruit: calyx-tube silky-strigose, 4-5 mm. long; teeth almost filiform, 7-9 mm. long: banner about 18 mm, long; obtuse, mucronate.

  • Discussion

    This is related to T. dasypliyllum but is easily distinguished by the minute bracts, the long slender calyx-teeth and the larger corolla. It grows at an altitude of 3600 m

    Colorado : La Plata Mountain, 1896, F. Tweedy, 457 (type in U. S. Nat. Herb.).

  • Distribution

    Colorado

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