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Melilotus Mill.

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Melilotus Mill., Gard. Dict., ed. 4, (1754)
Melilotus Mill.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Mill.
Mill.
1754
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Melilotus Mill.
genus
Melilotus

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Melilotus

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Melilotus Mill.

Annual, biennial or short-lived perennial, procumbent to erect herbs. Lvs pinnately 3-foliolate; principal lateral veins thin and straight, terminating at leaflet margin often in a tooth; stipules adnate to petiole. Infl. axillary, racemose, slender and often lax, few- to many-flowered; bracts present subtending fls, or 0. Calyx teeth 5, subequal, the upper longer. Corolla deciduous after flowering. Vexillary filament free or connate to the middle with the others; anthers uniform. Style glabrous; stigma terminal. Pod indehiscent or tardily 2-valved, ± straight, subglobose or ovoid, not armed, 1-2-seeded, rarely more; seeds estrophiolate, smooth and round in N.Z. spp.

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Melilotus Mill.
Melilotus
Melilotus Mill.

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Melilotus Mill.
New Zealand
Marlborough Land District
Melilotus Mill.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Melilotus Mill.
Norfolk Island

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06e9d992-d165-416c-b2e5-c0523f2a1a11
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1 January 2000
4 September 2008
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