Trifolium campestre var. campestre

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Trifolium campestre Schreb. var. campestre

Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, Vic Flora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (13), Tsakalos_2020 (17), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (2), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 25 traits from 43 records in 7 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 1.5 mm (1-2 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 12 mm (8-16 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); rhomboidal (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (1) [sources: RBGV_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_lamina_posture (categorical): flat (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_glaucousness (categorical): not_glaucous (2) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
leaf_hairs_adult_leaves (categorical): glabrous (1); hairy (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: RBGV_2023; Tsakalos_2020]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (4) [sources: RBGV_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): decumbent (2); erect (3); prostrate (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; Tsakalos_2020; WAH_2022_2]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

seed morphology

seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 0.16 m (0.03-0.3 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Tsakalos_2020]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Tsakalos_2020	16	17	J. L. Tsakalos, M. Renton, F. Riviera, E. J. Veneklaas, M. P. Dobrowolski, and L. Mucina. “Trait-based formal definition of plant functional types and functional communities in the multi-species and multi-traits context”. Ecological Complexity 40 (2019), p. 100787. doi: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2019.100787.
RBGV_2023	10	13	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
RBGV_2022	4	4	VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
WAH_2023_2	1	2	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.