Trifolium repens var. repens
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Trifolium repens L. var. repens
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: Catford_2014 (7), RBGV_2022 (4), RBGV_2023 (14), 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 21 traits from 34 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): 5 mm (4-6 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 23 mm (6-40 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 20 mm (10-30 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 50.34 g/m2 (50.34-50.34 g/m2) [sources: Catford_2014]
- leaf_shape (categorical): orbicular (1); widely_obovate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_serrate (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (4) [sources: Catford_2014; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (3); perennial (3) [sources: Catford_2014; RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (2); rhizomatous (1) [sources: RBGV_2022; WAH_2022_2]
- dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Catford_2014]
- storage_organ (categorical): rhizome (1) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.6 mg (0.6-0.6 mg) [sources: Catford_2014]
- seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: RBGV_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): ovoid (1); reniform (1) [sources: RBGV_2023]
whole plant morphology
- plant_height (numerical): 0.15 m (0.15-0.15 m) [sources: WAH_2023_2]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| RBGV_2023 | 11 | 14 | VicFlora. Flora of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/. |
| Catford_2014 | 7 | 7 | J. A. Catford, W. K. Morris, P. A. Vesk, C. J. Gippel, and B. J. Downes. “Species and environmental characteristics point to flow regulation and drought as drivers of riparian plant invasion”. Diversity and Distributions 20 (2014), pp. 1084-1096. doi: 10.1111/ddi.12225. |
| 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 | 2 | 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. |