View source for Trifolium brandegeei

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|accepted_name=Trifolium brandegeei
|accepted_authority=S. Watson
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|place=11: 130. 1876
|year=1876
|other_info_on_pub=(as brandegei)
}}
|common_names=Brandegee’s clover
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae;Trifolium;Trifolium brandegeei
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Trifolium]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Trifolium brandegeei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 11
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>perennial, 5–15 cm, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> cespitose, short-branched. <b>Leaves</b> palmate; stipules broadly lanceolate, 1–1.5 cm, margins entire, apex acute-acuminate; petiole 0.6–1.2 cm; petiolules to 0.5 mm; leaflets 3, blades ovate, oblong-elliptic, or elliptic, 0.8–3 × 0.4–1.5 cm, base cuneate, veins moderately thickened, margins entire or faintly serrate, apex acute to rounded or minutely apiculate, surfaces glabrous. <b>Peduncles</b> 6–20 cm. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, 4–15-flowered, ovoid-ellipsoid, 2.5–4 × 2.2–3 cm, rachis prolonged ca. 10 mm beyond distalmost flower; involucres absent. <b>Pedicels</b> strongly reflexed, 1–2 mm; bracteoles linear, minute. <b>Flowers</b> 15–18 mm; calyx whitish, campanulate, 7–10 mm, sparsely pubescent, veins 10, tube 4–5 mm, lobes subequal, longer than tube, narrowly triangular, acuminate, orifice open; corolla purple to magenta, 15–18 mm, banner broadly ovate, 15–17 × 7–9 mm, apex obtuse or retuse. <b>Legumes</b> oblong, 6.5–7 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 1–3, yellow and red, flattened ovoid, 2–2.5 mm, smooth. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Open montane forests and subalpine areas.
|elevation=3500–3700 m.
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|discussion=<p>A close relationship between Trifolium brandegeei and T. parryi was hypothesized by J. M. Gillett (1965); this has not been borne out by flavonoid chemosystematics (E. V. Parups et al. 1966) or DNA analyses (N. W. Ellison et al. 2006).</p>
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name=Trifolium brandegeei
|authority=S. Watson
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Fabaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Aug.
|habitat=Open montane forests and subalpine areas.
|elevation=3500–3700 m.
|distribution=Colo.;N.Mex.
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts
|publication year=1876
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_2025.xml
|subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae
|genus=Trifolium
|species=Trifolium brandegeei
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