Common name: Kura, Pellett Clover
Trifolium ambiguum M.Bieb. APNI* 
Description: Procumbent or ascending perennial, rhizomatous, glabrous or sparsely hairy; branches to 60 cm long.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets ovate to lanceolate or ± elliptic, 10–70 mm long, 6–30 mm wide, 1.7–2.3 times as long as broad, toothed.
Inflorescences ovoid, 10–35 mm long, 10–20 mm diam., > 20-flowered, axillary; peduncle longer than subtending leaf. Flowers on pedicels 1–2 mm long. Calyx tube obscurely veined; throat open; teeth spiny, erect in pod. Corolla 10–13 mm long, longer than calyx, white, flesh-coloured after anthesis, persistent. Pod 1- or 2-seeded, included in calyx.
Distribution and occurrence: Native of Eur.
NSW subdivisions: *ST
Other Australian states: ?W.A.
Text by P. H. Weston
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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