Feedback request: Trigonella (10560)

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Specimen #328022

Taxon:	Fabaceae: Trigonella ornithopodioides (L.) DC.
Filed in taxon folder:	Fabaceae: Trigonella L.
Collected by:	James Fraser
Collection date:	16/9/1906
Locality:	Great Britain, VC83 Midlothian, Leith Docks, NT27
ex herb:	Mr Allan Octavian Hume
Institution:	South London Botanical Institute (SLBI)
Image:
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Tags:	collectors number: 15,282

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Documented by hallucigenia on 1^st November 2011.

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date	user	change
01/11/2011	hallucigenia	Added attribute flowerField: flowering
31/08/2014	xmhcman	Deleted collector: Dr John (Joannis) Fraser
31/08/2014	xmhcman	Added collector: James Fraser

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hallucigenia wrote

Is this Trigonella ornithopodioides ?

[David Price]

Label says T. corniculata.

Collector is James, not John, Fraser.

[David Price]

It took me ages to find out (no reference in Stace) what Trigonella ornithopodioides is (or was), although the combination is not unfamiliar to the ear (eventually Dr Tim Rich told me).

Trifolium ornithopodioides L. was renamed Trigonella ornithopodiodes (L.) DC by de Candolle but has reverted to Trifolium. In the UK it is a seaside native and the New Atlas records it as an alien around Edinburgh.

There is however a current taxon validly named Trigonella corniculata which is the name on this specimen's label. The New Atlas does not map this taxon as having been recorded as far north as Scotland (not that that is in itself diagnostic).

The presence of fruit would have helped. Are the flowers "5-7mm in elongated Melilotus-like racemes" (Trig. corniculata) or "6-8mm, in stalked, axillary 1-4 (5) flowered racemes" (Trif. ornithopodiodes)?

As usual I would have to back this each way & my selection is Trifolium ornithopodioides.