Annual herb ; up to 50 cm high , with mild perfume scented fragrance , glabrous to sparsely hairy . Stems erect to ascending , unbranched , slender , pubescent . Leaves alternate , trifoliolate ; petiole 15-30 mm ; stipules dentate ; leaflets 8-22 x 3-12 mm , obovate to oblanceolate , dentate , tips blunt or indented , base tapering , margins serrated , glabrous above , ± glabrous beneath , pilose on the midrib below . Inflorescences in slender , compact racemes ; peduncle up to 3 cm . Flowers small ; calyx ± 2 mm ; corolla pale yellow , 2–3 mm long ; wings and keel equal , shorter than standard . Fruit pods , 1 . 5-4 mm , ovoid to subglobose , prominently reticulately veined , green to brownish , glabrous , 1-seeded . Seeds ovoid , finely verrucose . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 2) .
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Not Common
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Sertula indica (L.) Kuntze
Trifolium indicum L.
Trigonella smallii Coulot & Rabaute
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Sweet Clover
Sour Clover
Indian Sweet-Clover
Annual Yellow Sweetclover
Bokhara Clover
Small-Flowered Sweet Clover
Common Melilot
Small-Flowered Melilot
Small Melilot
Sweet Melilot
Californian Lucerne
Hexham Scent
King Island Melilot
King Island Clover
As fooder for goats treated as alfalfa. The vernacular name 'khouiat al qat' literally means "alfalfa's sister", refers to the fact that both species found associated together in cultivation. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
*POWO (2022). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org *Ghazanfar, S. (2007). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.2: Crassulaceae – Apiaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 36). ISBN 9789072619747 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5.
