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Nomenclature
Trifolium pratense L. Fabaceae
Standardized common name (English): red clover
Botanical Voucher Specimen
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Source: MOBOT, Tropicos.org[1]
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Organoleptic Characteristics
The odor is faintly aromatic and somewhat tea-like, the taste being sweetish, then slightly bitter.
Source: United States Dispensatory (1918) [2]
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Macroscopic Characteristics
| Heads are ovoid with rounded summit, mostly from 12' to 25 mm. in length and breadth, shriveled, purplish and more or less brown from drying, consisting of many small papilionaceous flowers, crowded together and clothed at the base with broad, pointed, ciliate stipules of a pale green color with darker veins and which may or may not be accompanied by diminutive trifoliate leaves. The individual flowers are from 12 to 15 mm. in length, longer than the four nearly equal teeth and shorter than the narrower fifth tooth, calyx-teeth subulate, tapering; petals united into a tube below, the standard longer than the wings, but when recurved appearing shorter; stamens diadelphous (nine and one); style slender.
Source: United States Dispensatory (1918) [3]
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Microscopic Characteristics
High Performance Thin Layer Chromatographic Identification
Supplementary Information
Sources
- ↑ MOBOT, Tropicos.org http://www.tropicos.org/Image/100005641
- ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
- ↑ United States Dispensatory (1918)
- ↑ PlantaPhile http://plantaphile.com/
- ↑ PlantaPhile http://plantaphile.com/
