Taxon:
Trifolium occidentale Coombe
Summary
Place of publication:
Watsonia 5:70. 1961
Verified:
08/26/2015
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
- Chen, C.-C. & P. B. Gibson. 1971. Karyotypes of fifteen Trifolium species in section Amoria. Crop Sci. (Madison) 11:441-445. Note: 2n=16
- Coombe, D. E. & P. Morisset. 1967. Further observations on Trifolium occidentale. Watsonia 6:271-275. URL: http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/index.html
- Coombe, D. E. 1961. Trifolium occidentale, a new species related to T. repens L. Watsonia 5:68-87. URL: http://archive.bsbi.org.uk/index.html
- Ellison, N. W. et al. 2006. Molecular phylogenetics of the clover genus (Trifolium - Leguminosae). Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 39:688-705. URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10557903
- Gibson, P. & G. Beinhart. 1969. Hybridisation of Trifolium occidentale with two other species of clover. J. Heredity 60:93-96.
- Gillett, J. M. & N. L. Taylor (M. Collins ed.). 2001. The world of clovers 266.
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964-1980. Flora europaea.
- Williams, W. M. & S. N. Nichols. 2011. Chapter 13: Trifolium. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, legume crops and forages 249-272.
- Williams, W. M. et al. 2008. Hybridization and introgression between two diploid wild relatives of white clover, Trifolium nigrescens Viv. and T. occidentale Coombe. Crop Sci. (Madison) 48:139-148.
- Williams, W. M. et al. 2011. Eco-geographically divergent diploids, Caucasian clover (Trifolium ambiguum) and western clover (T. occidentale), retain most requirements for hybridization. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) 108:1269-1277. URL: http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year
- Williams, W. M. et al. 2013. Widening the adaptation of white clover by incorporation of valuable new traits from wild clover species. Proceedings of the 22nd International Grassland Congress. New Zealand 287-289.
- Zohary, M. & D. Heller. 1984. The genus Trifolium 170. Note: = Trifolium repens var. biasolettii (Steud. & Hochst.) Asch. & Graebn.
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | Ireland | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Northern Europe | United Kingdom | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | France | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | Portugal | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | Spain | | |
Native
Europe
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NORTHERN EUROPE:
United Kingdom, Ireland
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SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE:
Spain, France, Portugal