[FTEA]
Leguminosae, J. B. Gillett, R. M. Polhill & B. Verdcourt. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1971
- Morphology General Habit
- Herbs or softly woody shrublets
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves epulvinate; stipules, if present, usually reduced to dark glands; stipels absent; leaflets entire, sometimes 3 or 4 but usually 5, with the lower pair at the base of the short rhachis resembling stipules
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence an axillary pedunculate (or, outside the Flora area, sessile) umbel with a 1–3-foliolate bract, rarely, outside the Flora area, flowers solitary in the leaf-axils
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx tubular, subequally 5-toothed or, outside the Flora area, the lowest tooth longest or, rarely, the teeth in 2 lips
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals glabrous, free from the stamens; standard oblong-obovate, at the base wedge-shaped with infolded thickened margins; wings oblong, auriculate, more or less pouched, clawed; keel as long as the wings, curved, pointed or beaked, pouched at the sides, its claws free
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Vexillary stamen free, the other 9 united, 5 of them with longer filaments always widened at the tip, the other 4 with shorter filaments sometimes widened; anthers all alike
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate, in the Flora area glabrous, subcylindrical, multi-ovulate; style bent abruptly upwards at the base, glabrous, cylindrical except at the base, rigid, rather persistent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Pod straight, oblong or linear, usually cylindrical, usually septate within, dehiscent into 2 valves which usually become twisted
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds subglobular or lens-shaped, not conspicuously arillate; hilum minute.
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Legumes of the World. Edited by G. Lewis, B. Schrire, B. MacKinder & M. Lock. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (2005)
- Note
-
The Loteae have been usually considered as the closest relatives of other temperate tribes, especially of the astragaloid part of Galegeae (e.g., Polhill, 1981k: 371–374), and the monospecific genus Podolotus was either allied with Lotus, or merged with Astragalus. Recent molecular data, however, have revealed that Galegeae, Cicereae, Hedysareae, Trifolieae, Fabeae and Millettieae (in small part) lack the chloroplast-DNA inverted repeat (IR) which is present in the majority of Leguminosae including Loteae (Liston, 1995). A study of the chloroplast gene rbcL also placed Loteae and other temperate tribes in different clades (Doyle et al., 1997), the Loteae being in a robinioid clade and the temperate tribes in an Inverted Repeat Lacking clade (IRLC). In recent supertrees of the Hologalegina alliance (Wojciechowski et al., 2000, 2004), Loteae sens. lat. are sister to Sesbania, and the combined Loteae-Sesbanieae clade is itself sister to the Robinieae.
Loteae differ from Robinieae in a suite of characters which were listed by Dormer (1945) for his ‘epulvinate series’, i.e., often herbaceous habit and leaves mostly distichous, usually without a pulvinus. These characters are now of less phylogenetic importance since the ‘epulvinate series’ is no longer considered to be a monophyletic group. An obvious synapomorphy of Loteae, shared by all extant members of the tribe, is stamen filaments dilated upwards. This is an adaptation for secondary pollen presentation. Another apomorphy shared by almost all Loteae is the capitate or umbellate partial inflorescence, while Robinieae possesses racemes. A most unusual (and possibly synapomorphic) morphological character of many Loteae is the presence of a foliage leaf on the peduncle. This leaf is often described as a bract, but it has neither a flower nor other structures in its axil. True bracts in Loteae usually lack a blade and are membranous or glandular. Phylogenetic evidence suggests the presence or absence of the foliage leaf on the peduncle is homoplastic within Loteae.
The circumscription of Loteae has recently been expanded to include genera formerly placed in Coronilleae (Polhill, 1981k & l; 1994). These two tribes were previously distinguished by the lomentaceous fruits and branched root nodules in Coronilleae (fruits non-lomentaceous and root nodules unbranched in Loteae sens. strict.). The Coronilleae were earlier placed in tribe Hedysareae (Bentham, 1865) because of their lomentaceous fruits.
The merging of Loteae sens. strict. and Coronilleae is supported by both morphological (Polhill, 1981k; Lassen, 1989; Díez & Ferguson, 1990, 1994, 1996; Tikhomirov & Sokoloff, 1996a) and molecular data (Doyle, 1995; Liston, 1995; Doyle et al., 1997; Allan, 1998; Allan & Porter, 2000; Allan et al., 2003). These data indicate that lomentaceous fruits have arisen independently in Coronilleae and Hedysareae, and perhaps even in different genera of Coronilleae. Allan & Porter (2000: Fig. 2A) suggested, however, that lomentaceous fruits were a plesiomorphic condition for Loteae sens. lat. In our opinion, an ancestor of Loteae might have had dehiscent fruits divided into regular compartments by thin transverse septa (as in Sesbania and Lotus sens. lat.). The genera formerly placed in Coronilleae do not form a natural taxonomic unit at any level. Regarding fruit anatomy, lomentaceous fruits of Securigera and Coronilla are related to dehiscent fruits in the Lotus group, while lomentaceous fruits of Ornithopus and Antopetitia share important features of pericarp structure with the indehiscent non-lomentaceous fruits of Anthyllis and Dorycnopsis.
Recent publications have led to the removal of some groups from Lotus sens. lat. (Lassen, 1986; Tikhomirov & Sokoloff, 1997; Sokoloff, 1999, 2000), Coronilla sens. lat. (Lassen, 1989) and Anthyllis sens. lat. (Lassen, 1986; Tikhomirov & Sokoloff, 1996a, 1997). Morphological and molecular data relevant to the relationships between Old World and New World Loteae have recently been published (Díez & Ferguson, 1990, 1994, 1996; Kramina & Sokoloff, 1997a; Allan, 1998; Allan & Porter, 2000; Allan et al., 2000, 2002, 2003; Degtjareva et al., 2003). The placement of Podolotus in Loteae is now well supported by morphological data. Allan & Porter (2000) and Allan et al. (2003), using nuclear ribosomal ITS, concluded that Old World and New World Lotus sens. lat. belong to distinct clades. In the latter analysis, Old World Lotus forms a moderately supported monophyletic group if Tetragonolobus and Dorycnium are included, while New World Lotus is paraphyletic, also containing the Old World Ornithopus (although with 1 sp. in the New World) and Kebirita among others. In this treatment Loteae is considered to comprise 22 genera and c. 282 species (Fig. 51).
Polhill (1981k) adopted a broad concept of the genus, but Lassen (1986) and Sokoloff (1999, 2000) accepted a number of segregates; the American species are treated here under Hosackia, Ottleya, Acmispon and Syrmatium (Sokoloff, 1999); the genus is taxonomically difficult at specific as well as at sectional and subgeneric levels; several species are extremely variable, e.g., L. corniculatus L. and L. australis Andr., and hybridisation is frequent - Habit
- Herbs, suffrutices and shrubs
- Ecology
- Temperate, mediterranean, subtropical and tropical montane grassland and shrubland, desert and disturbed places
- Distribution
- N Temperate; here treated as exclusively Old World, mainly Europe, Mediterranean (including N Africa) and Macaronesia, eastwards to C, SW and E Asia (S and W Siberia, Mongolia, Himalaya, China, Korea and Japan); c. 2 spp. endemic to Australia and 1 sp. to New Caledonia and Vanuatu, and c. 20 spp. in mostly montane tropical to Somalia-Masai regions in Africa and Arabia
[FZ]
Leguminosae, various authors. Flora Zambesiaca 3:7. 2003
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or perennial herbs, subshrubs or dwarf shrubs.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves sessile or with a very short petiole, usually with 5, rarely with 3–4, leaflets (or elsewhere occasionally more); leaflets petiolulate, the lower pair at the base of the rhachis and resembling stipules; stipules reduced to dark glands, sometimes inconspicuous, or absent; stipels absent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers in axillary usually pedunculate umbels with a 1–3-foliolate foliage leaf, rarely umbels reduced to one flower and resembling solitary flowers.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx tubular or narrowly campanulate, subequally 5-toothed or the lowest tooth longest or the teeth in 2 lips.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla yellow, pink, cream or white, glabrous or rarely (in Macaronesia and Morocco) the standard and (very rarely) also the wings pubescent, free from the stamens; standard ± oblong-obovate, wedge-shaped at the base with infolded thickened margins; wings clawed, the blade oblong, auriculate, laterally pouched; keel curved, pointed or beaked with free claws.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Vexillary stamen free, the other 9 with the filaments united into a sheath; free parts of at least the 5 longer filaments widened at the tip.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Pistil
- Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate, glabrous (outside the Flora Zambesiaca area sometimes strigulose or hairy), subcylindrical, multi-ovulate; style bent upwards at the base, glabrous, but papillose, rigid.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Pod usually cylindrical, straight, linear, usually septate within, dehiscent into 2 valves (except in L. benoistii, from Morocco, with an indehiscent fruit, and in the Mediterranean L. edulis with the fruit dehiscent ventrally), the valves often becoming twisted.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds ellipsoid, subreniform or subglobular, with a small, median hilum.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Herbs or softly woody shrublets
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves imparipinnate or digitate, (3–)5-foliolate, the lowest pair resembling stipules; stipules minute
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Flowers in pedunculate heads or umbels, or rarely solitary
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx subequally 5-toothed or rarely 2-lipped
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens Filaments
- Upper filament free, the other 9 united
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Pod straight, usually cylindrical, dehiscent, many-seeded.
- Distribution
- Old World genus of some 120-130 species, widespread, most numerous around the Mediterranean.
[LOWO]
Legumes of the World. Edited by G. Lewis, B. Schrire, B. MacKinder & M. Lock. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (2005)
- Habit
- Herbs
- Ecology
- Mediterranean and warm temperate grassland
- Distribution
- Mainly Mediterranean to E Europe and Caucasus
- Note
-
Close to Lotus and often considered a section of it; Tetragonolobus can easily be separated from Lotus by fruit, style and leaf morphology, but the phylogenies of Allan & Porter (2000) and Allan et al. (2003), and Sokoloff (2003a) indicate that Tetragonolobus is firmly embedded within Lotus
The Loteae have been usually considered as the closest relatives of other temperate tribes, especially of the astragaloid part of Galegeae (e.g., Polhill, 1981k: 371–374), and the monospecific genus Podolotus was either allied with Lotus, or merged with Astragalus. Recent molecular data, however, have revealed that Galegeae, Cicereae, Hedysareae, Trifolieae, Fabeae and Millettieae (in small part) lack the chloroplast-DNA inverted repeat (IR) which is present in the majority of Leguminosae including Loteae (Liston, 1995). A study of the chloroplast gene rbcL also placed Loteae and other temperate tribes in different clades (Doyle et al., 1997), the Loteae being in a robinioid clade and the temperate tribes in an Inverted Repeat Lacking clade (IRLC). In recent supertrees of the Hologalegina alliance (Wojciechowski et al., 2000, 2004), Loteae sens. lat. are sister to Sesbania, and the combined Loteae-Sesbanieae clade is itself sister to the Robinieae.
Loteae differ from Robinieae in a suite of characters which were listed by Dormer (1945) for his ‘epulvinate series’, i.e., often herbaceous habit and leaves mostly distichous, usually without a pulvinus. These characters are now of less phylogenetic importance since the ‘epulvinate series’ is no longer considered to be a monophyletic group. An obvious synapomorphy of Loteae, shared by all extant members of the tribe, is stamen filaments dilated upwards. This is an adaptation for secondary pollen presentation. Another apomorphy shared by almost all Loteae is the capitate or umbellate partial inflorescence, while Robinieae possesses racemes. A most unusual (and possibly synapomorphic) morphological character of many Loteae is the presence of a foliage leaf on the peduncle. This leaf is often described as a bract, but it has neither a flower nor other structures in its axil. True bracts in Loteae usually lack a blade and are membranous or glandular. Phylogenetic evidence suggests the presence or absence of the foliage leaf on the peduncle is homoplastic within Loteae.
The circumscription of Loteae has recently been expanded to include genera formerly placed in Coronilleae (Polhill, 1981k & l; 1994). These two tribes were previously distinguished by the lomentaceous fruits and branched root nodules in Coronilleae (fruits non-lomentaceous and root nodules unbranched in Loteae sens. strict.). The Coronilleae were earlier placed in tribe Hedysareae (Bentham, 1865) because of their lomentaceous fruits.
The merging of Loteae sens. strict. and Coronilleae is supported by both morphological (Polhill, 1981k; Lassen, 1989; Díez & Ferguson, 1990, 1994, 1996; Tikhomirov & Sokoloff, 1996a) and molecular data (Doyle, 1995; Liston, 1995; Doyle et al., 1997; Allan, 1998; Allan & Porter, 2000; Allan et al., 2003). These data indicate that lomentaceous fruits have arisen independently in Coronilleae and Hedysareae, and perhaps even in different genera of Coronilleae. Allan & Porter (2000: Fig. 2A) suggested, however, that lomentaceous fruits were a plesiomorphic condition for Loteae sens. lat. In our opinion, an ancestor of Loteae might have had dehiscent fruits divided into regular compartments by thin transverse septa (as in Sesbania and Lotus sens. lat.). The genera formerly placed in Coronilleae do not form a natural taxonomic unit at any level. Regarding fruit anatomy, lomentaceous fruits of Securigera and Coronilla are related to dehiscent fruits in the Lotus group, while lomentaceous fruits of Ornithopus and Antopetitia share important features of pericarp structure with the indehiscent non-lomentaceous fruits of Anthyllis and Dorycnopsis.
Recent publications have led to the removal of some groups from Lotus sens. lat. (Lassen, 1986; Tikhomirov & Sokoloff, 1997; Sokoloff, 1999, 2000), Coronilla sens. lat. (Lassen, 1989) and Anthyllis sens. lat. (Lassen, 1986; Tikhomirov & Sokoloff, 1996a, 1997). Morphological and molecular data relevant to the relationships between Old World and New World Loteae have recently been published (Díez & Ferguson, 1990, 1994, 1996; Kramina & Sokoloff, 1997a; Allan, 1998; Allan & Porter, 2000; Allan et al., 2000, 2002, 2003; Degtjareva et al., 2003). The placement of Podolotus in Loteae is now well supported by morphological data. Allan & Porter (2000) and Allan et al. (2003), using nuclear ribosomal ITS, concluded that Old World and New World Lotus sens. lat. belong to distinct clades. In the latter analysis, Old World Lotus forms a moderately supported monophyletic group if Tetragonolobus and Dorycnium are included, while New World Lotus is paraphyletic, also containing the Old World Ornithopus (although with 1 sp. in the New World) and Kebirita among others. In this treatment Loteae is considered to comprise 22 genera and c. 282 species (Fig. 51).
[LOWO]
Legumes of the World. Edited by G. Lewis, B. Schrire, B. MacKinder & M. Lock. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. (2005)
- Habit
- Shrubs, suffrutices or herbs
- Ecology
- Mediterranean woodland and shrubland, dry slopes; D. strictum (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Lassen often in saline habitats
- Distribution
- C, S and E Europe, mainly Mediterranean, eastwards to Caucasus and W Asia (Iran)
- Note
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A generally accepted genus, but limits much disputed; corrections to Rikli's (1901) monograph should be: 1) transfer Anthyllis fulgurans Porta and Lotus strictus Fisch. & C.A.Mey. to Dorycnium (Lassen, 1979; 1986); 2) transfer Dorycnium sect. Canaria Rikli to Lotus, as a subgenus (Gillett, 1959); the basic distinction of Dorycnium from Lotus is the smooth (not papillose) style; further studies may show that Lotus and Dorycnium should be merged, as proposed by Polhill (1981k) and as indicated in the phylogeny of Allan et al. (2003); Sokoloff (2003a) transferred all species of Dorycnium to Lotus; the D. pentaphyllum Scop. complex is very variable and problematic
The Loteae have been usually considered as the closest relatives of other temperate tribes, especially of the astragaloid part of Galegeae (e.g., Polhill, 1981k: 371–374), and the monospecific genus Podolotus was either allied with Lotus, or merged with Astragalus. Recent molecular data, however, have revealed that Galegeae, Cicereae, Hedysareae, Trifolieae, Fabeae and Millettieae (in small part) lack the chloroplast-DNA inverted repeat (IR) which is present in the majority of Leguminosae including Loteae (Liston, 1995). A study of the chloroplast gene rbcL also placed Loteae and other temperate tribes in different clades (Doyle et al., 1997), the Loteae being in a robinioid clade and the temperate tribes in an Inverted Repeat Lacking clade (IRLC). In recent supertrees of the Hologalegina alliance (Wojciechowski et al., 2000, 2004), Loteae sens. lat. are sister to Sesbania, and the combined Loteae-Sesbanieae clade is itself sister to the Robinieae.
Loteae differ from Robinieae in a suite of characters which were listed by Dormer (1945) for his ‘epulvinate series’, i.e., often herbaceous habit and leaves mostly distichous, usually without a pulvinus. These characters are now of less phylogenetic importance since the ‘epulvinate series’ is no longer considered to be a monophyletic group. An obvious synapomorphy of Loteae, shared by all extant members of the tribe, is stamen filaments dilated upwards. This is an adaptation for secondary pollen presentation. Another apomorphy shared by almost all Loteae is the capitate or umbellate partial inflorescence, while Robinieae possesses racemes. A most unusual (and possibly synapomorphic) morphological character of many Loteae is the presence of a foliage leaf on the peduncle. This leaf is often described as a bract, but it has neither a flower nor other structures in its axil. True bracts in Loteae usually lack a blade and are membranous or glandular. Phylogenetic evidence suggests the presence or absence of the foliage leaf on the peduncle is homoplastic within Loteae.
The circumscription of Loteae has recently been expanded to include genera formerly placed in Coronilleae (Polhill, 1981k & l; 1994). These two tribes were previously distinguished by the lomentaceous fruits and branched root nodules in Coronilleae (fruits non-lomentaceous and root nodules unbranched in Loteae sens. strict.). The Coronilleae were earlier placed in tribe Hedysareae (Bentham, 1865) because of their lomentaceous fruits.
The merging of Loteae sens. strict. and Coronilleae is supported by both morphological (Polhill, 1981k; Lassen, 1989; Díez & Ferguson, 1990, 1994, 1996; Tikhomirov & Sokoloff, 1996a) and molecular data (Doyle, 1995; Liston, 1995; Doyle et al., 1997; Allan, 1998; Allan & Porter, 2000; Allan et al., 2003). These data indicate that lomentaceous fruits have arisen independently in Coronilleae and Hedysareae, and perhaps even in different genera of Coronilleae. Allan & Porter (2000: Fig. 2A) suggested, however, that lomentaceous fruits were a plesiomorphic condition for Loteae sens. lat. In our opinion, an ancestor of Loteae might have had dehiscent fruits divided into regular compartments by thin transverse septa (as in Sesbania and Lotus sens. lat.). The genera formerly placed in Coronilleae do not form a natural taxonomic unit at any level. Regarding fruit anatomy, lomentaceous fruits of Securigera and Coronilla are related to dehiscent fruits in the Lotus group, while lomentaceous fruits of Ornithopus and Antopetitia share important features of pericarp structure with the indehiscent non-lomentaceous fruits of Anthyllis and Dorycnopsis.
Recent publications have led to the removal of some groups from Lotus sens. lat. (Lassen, 1986; Tikhomirov & Sokoloff, 1997; Sokoloff, 1999, 2000), Coronilla sens. lat. (Lassen, 1989) and Anthyllis sens. lat. (Lassen, 1986; Tikhomirov & Sokoloff, 1996a, 1997). Morphological and molecular data relevant to the relationships between Old World and New World Loteae have recently been published (Díez & Ferguson, 1990, 1994, 1996; Kramina & Sokoloff, 1997a; Allan, 1998; Allan & Porter, 2000; Allan et al., 2000, 2002, 2003; Degtjareva et al., 2003). The placement of Podolotus in Loteae is now well supported by morphological data. Allan & Porter (2000) and Allan et al. (2003), using nuclear ribosomal ITS, concluded that Old World and New World Lotus sens. lat. belong to distinct clades. In the latter analysis, Old World Lotus forms a moderately supported monophyletic group if Tetragonolobus and Dorycnium are included, while New World Lotus is paraphyletic, also containing the Old World Ornithopus (although with 1 sp. in the New World) and Kebirita among others. In this treatment Loteae is considered to comprise 22 genera and c. 282 species (Fig. 51).
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- Use
- Lotus corniculatus (birdsfoot trefoil) and L. pedunculatus Cav. sens lat. (big trefoil) are major agronomic species, being valuable forage, pasture, green manure and cover plants; other species are used in cosmetic skin care and, e.g., L. bertholetii Masf., page 454, and L. maculatus Breitf. are cultivated as ornamentals
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- Use
- Tetragonolobus purpureus Moench (winged pea, asparagus pea) is an important crop cultivated for its edible pods and tubers, and as a culinary herb; seeds are roasted as a substitute for coffee; also used as a green manure, winter cover and hay crop
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- Use
- Dorycnium hirsutum (L.) Ser. (hairy Canary clover) and other species are used as a forage crop, to control soil erosion and are cultivated as ornamentals
Native to:
Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Angola, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bismarck Archipelago, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Central European Rus, Chad, China North-Central, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Djibouti, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Føroyar, Gambia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Malawi, Mali, Manchuria, Mauritania, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Niger, Nigeria, North Caucasus, North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Northwest European R, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Queensland, Romania, Rwanda, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Senegal, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tasmania, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Victoria, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Introduced into:
Alabama, Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arkansas, Brazil South, California, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile South, Colombia, Colorado, Costa Rica, Easter Is., Falkland Is., Hawaii, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Kentucky, Kermadec Is., Labrador, Mexico Northwest, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Norfolk Is., Oregon, Primorye, Réunion, South Georgia, St.Helena, Tennessee, Tristan da Cunha, Uruguay, Venezuela, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin
- Lotus aduncus (Griseb.) Nyman
- Lotus aegaeus (Griseb.) Boiss.
- Lotus alianus J.H.Kirkbr.
- Lotus alpinus (Ser.) Schleich. ex Ramond
- Lotus anfractuosus (Baker f.) Kramina & D.D.Sokoloff
- Lotus angustissimus L.
- Lotus arabicus Sol. ex L.
- Lotus arenarius Brot.
- Lotus argyrodes R.P.Murray
- Lotus arinagensis Bramwell
- Lotus assakensis Coss. ex Brand
- Lotus australis Andrews
- Lotus axilliflorus (Hub.-Mor.) D.D.Sokoloff
- Lotus becquetii Boutique
- Lotus benoistii (Maire) Lassen
- Lotus berthelotii Masf.
- Lotus biflorus Desr.
- Lotus borbasii Ujhelyi
- Lotus broussonetii Choisy ex Ser.
- Lotus brunneri Webb
- Lotus burttii Borsos
- Lotus callis-viridis Bramwell & D.H.Davis
- Lotus campylocladus Webb & Berthel.
- Lotus carpetanus Lacaita
- Lotus castellanus Boiss. & Reut.
- Lotus chazaliei H.Boissieu
- Lotus compactus Chrtková
- Lotus conimbricensis Brot.
- Lotus conjugatus L.
- Lotus corniculatus L.
- Lotus creticus L.
- Lotus cruentus Court
- Lotus cytisoides L.
- Lotus × davyae Druce
- Lotus discolor E.Mey.
- Lotus divaricatus Boiss.
- Lotus dorycnium L.
- Lotus drepanocarpus Durieu
- Lotus dumetorum Webb ex R.P.Murray
- Lotus edulis L.
- Lotus emeroides R.P.Murray
- Lotus eremiticus A.Santos
- Lotus eriophthalmus Webb & Berthel.
- Lotus frondosus (Freyn) Kuprian.
- Lotus fulgurans (Porta) D.D.Sokoloff
- Lotus garcinii Ser.
- Lotus gebelia Vent.
- Lotus germanicus (Gremli) Peruzzi
- Lotus glacialis (Boiss.) Pau
- Lotus glareosus Boiss. & Reut.
- Lotus glaucus Aiton
- Lotus glinoides Delile
- Lotus goetzei Harms
- Lotus gomerythus A.Portero, J.Martín-Carbajal & R.Mesa
- Lotus graecus L.
- Lotus halophilus Boiss. & Spruner
- Lotus hebecarpus J.B.Gillett
- Lotus hebranicus Hochst. ex Brand
- Lotus herbaceus (Vill.) Jauzein
- Lotus hirsutus L.
- Lotus holosericeus Webb & Berthel.
- Lotus jacobaeus L.
- Lotus japonicus (Regel) K.Larsen
- Lotus jolyi Batt.
- Lotus jordanii (Loret & Barrandon) Coulot, Rabaute & J.-M.Tison
- Lotus krylovii Schischk. & Serg.
- Lotus kunkelii (Esteve) Bramwell & D.H.Davis
- Lotus lalambensis Schweinf.
- Lotus lancerottensis Webb & Berthel.
- Lotus lanuginosus Vent.
- Lotus laricus Rech.f., Aellen & Esfand.
- Lotus latidentatus Elenevsky
- Lotus lebrunii Boutique
- Lotus longisiliquosus R.Roem.
- Lotus lourdes-santiagoi Pina & Valdés
- Lotus loweanus Webb & Berthel.
- Lotus macranthus Lowe
- Lotus maculatus Breitf.
- Lotus maritimus L.
- Lotus maroccanus Ball
- Lotus mascaensis Burchard
- Lotus × medioximus Husn.
- Lotus michauxianus Ser.
- Lotus × minoricensis M.À.Conesa, Mus & Rosselló
- Lotus miyakojimae Kramina
- Lotus mlanjeanus J.B.Gillett
- Lotus mollis Balf.f.
- Lotus namulensis Brand
- Lotus nubicus Hochst. ex Baker
- Lotus oliveirae A.Chev.
- Lotus ononopsis Balf.f.
- Lotus ornithopodioides L.
- Lotus palustris Willd.
- Lotus parviflorus Desf.
- Lotus peczoricus Miniaev & Ulle
- Lotus pedunculatus Cav.
- Lotus peregrinus L.
- Lotus polyphyllos E.D.Clarke
- Lotus pseudocreticus Maire, Weiller & Wilczek
- Lotus purpureus Webb
- Lotus pyranthus P.Pérez
- Lotus quinatus (Forssk.) J.B.Gillett
- Lotus rechingeri Chrtková
- Lotus rectus L.
- Lotus requienii Mauri ex Sanguin.
- Lotus robsonii E.S.Martins & D.D.Sokoloff
- Lotus sanguineus (Vural) D.D.Sokoloff
- Lotus schoelleri Schweinf.
- Lotus sessilifolius DC.
- Lotus simoneae Maire, Weiller & Wilczek
- Lotus spartioides Webb & Berthel.
- Lotus spectabilis Choisy ex Ser.
- Lotus stepposus Kramina
- Lotus strictus Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Lotus subbiflorus Lag.
- Lotus subdigitatus Boutique
- Lotus taitungensis S.S.Ying
- Lotus tenellus (Lowe) Sandral, A.Santos & D.D.Sokoloff
- Lotus tenuis Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd.
- Lotus tetragonolobus L.
- Lotus tetraphyllus L.
- Lotus tibesticus Maire
- Lotus torulosus (Chiov.) Fiori
- Lotus × ucrainicus Klokov
- Lotus villicarpus Andr.
- Lotus weilleri Maire
- Lotus wildii J.B.Gillett
- Lotus zemmouriensis C.Chatel., F.Andrieu & Dobignard
Lotus L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tweedie [890], Kenya | 9274.000 | No | |||
Rico, L. [1762], Armenia | Dorycnium | K000297275 | No |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 773 (1753)
Accepted by
- Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1968). Flora Europaea 2: 1-469. Cambridge University Press.
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Flora of West Tropical Africa
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Flora Zambesiaca
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- Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 338 (1754).
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- Sp. Pl.: 773 (1753)
Flora of Somalia
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- Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
- Gillett in Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (1971).
- Gillett in Kew Bull. 13: 361–381 (1958)
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Brand in E.J. 25:116–232 (1898)
- Gillett in K.B. 13: 361–81 (1958)
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- Sp. Pl.: 773 (1753)
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