Taxonavigation

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Trifolieae
Genera: Medicago – Melilotus – Ononis – Parochetus – Trifolium – Trigonella

Name

Trifolieae Endl., Fl. Poson.: 452. (1830)

• Type genus: Trifolium L. Sp. Pl. 2: 764. (1753)
  

Note: This tribe is morphologically distinctive, but is considered paraphyletic, as circumscribed above. However, it is part of the monophyletic Vicoid clade that includes; Cicereae and Fabeae (as Vicieae), as well as Galega (Steele & Wojciechowski, 2003).

References

• The Legume Research Group 2016. Trifolieae Legumes of the World. Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Accessed Jan. 29 2016.
• Steele, K.P. & Wojciechowski, M.F. 2003. Phylogenetic analyses of tribes Trifolieae and Vicieae, based on sequences of the plastid gene matK (Papilionoideae: Leguminosae). Advances in legume systematics, part, 10, pp.355-370. Full text PDF
• USDA: GRIN Taxonomy for Plants (20 March 2006)

Vernacular names

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