- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:525117-1
- Publication
- Species Plantarum
- Collation
- 2: 736
- Date of Publication
- 1 May 1753
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Fabaceae
Type Information
- Locality
- 'Habitat inter Europae segetes hodie'
- Type Herbaria
- lectotype LINN Herb. Linn. No. 906.20
- Chosen By
- Fawc. & Rendle Fl. Jamaica [Fawcett & Rendle] 4: 42. 1920
Original Data
- Remarks
- Europ.; Afr. bor.; Oriens
Remarks
See Journal of Botany 44 (1906) 235 (with reference to R.Brown collection of 1802-4) and P.M.Kloot, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 10 (1987) 239 with recommendation for use as a fodder plant in 1858.