Details for: W6 26338, Trifolium caucasicum Tausch, Samkura


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Trifolium caucasicum Tausch
Top Name:
Samkura
Origin:
Collected – Georgia
Received by NPGS:
07 Dec 2004
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Trifolium caucasicum Tausch
Top Name:
Samkura
Origin:
Collected – Georgia
Received by NPGS:
07 Dec 2004
Improvement Status:
Wild material
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Collected
16 August 2004.
Georgia
Locality: Collected at 21 km on Borjomi Bakuriani road, near the town of Bakuriani in the Kartli province, Georgia (Collector's notes).
Coordinates: 41.7331, 43.4842 (Map it)
Elevation: 1618m.
Georeference protocol: Lat/lon determined by GPS
Environment description: Population contained approximately 200 individual plants; was occasional and irregular. Size of the site was 1000 square meters, 10 degrees slope with W aspect (Collector's notes).
Number of plants sampled: 50
Comment: Collected from site 2. T. caucasicum is growing in understory of artificial pine forest (Pinus nigra, introduced), which is planted along the road and forms dense strands (Collector's notes).
Collector(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
Samkura
Type: Local name
Akhalkatsi, Maia Institute of Botany, Georgian Academy of Sciences

T011
Type: Collector identifier

W6 26338
Type: Site identifier
Group: W6
Western Regional Plant Introduction (W6) accession numbers
USDA-ARS, WRPIS

Narrative
Perennial 20-50 cm tall herb. Stem spreading or decumbent, branched, pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, pubescent. Basal leaves with long petioles, 10-12 cm long. Upper leaves almost sessile. They possess three oblong or lanceolate pubescent leaflets. Head is oblong cylindrical, 25-40 mm in diameter, flowers on short peduncle. Calyx tube has strongly expressed veins. Teeth are linear with three veins. One of them is twice as long as the calyx tube, the others are as long as the tube. Corolla pale yellow, 16-18 mm long. After anthesis it becomes brownish. Fruit one seeded. Reproductive period from May to August. Grows on meadows, forest edges and shrublands up to upper montane belt.
Trifolium caucasicum Tausch
Genus:
Trifolium
Subgenus:
Trifolium
Section:
Trifolium
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Trifolieae
Nomen number:

40193
Place of publication:

Syll. Pl. Nov. 2:245. 1828
Verified:
03/23/2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
EnglishCaucasian clover  1Gillett, J. M. & N. L. Taylor (M. Collins ed.). 2001. The world of clovers 94.
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MTA between the U.S. and Georgia.