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Taxon:  Lotus australis Andrews



Summary
Genus:
Lotus
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Loteae
Nomen number:
22686
Place of publication:
Bot. Repos. 10: t. 624. 1811
Comment:
authorship of names in this work follows Melbourne ICN Art. 46.8; there is no internal evidence in the work for any author other than Andrews (fide K. Gandhi, pers. comm. on 7 Aug 2006)
Verified:
06/27/1988 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
66 (62  active, 15  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Reference(s)
  1. Burbidge, N. T. & M. Gray. Flora of the Australian Capital Territory. 1970
  2. Green, J. W. Census of the vascular plants of Western Australia. 1985
  3. Harris, J. R. 1953. List of species of bacterial genus Rhizobium maintained in the type collection of C.S.I.R.O. Techn. Mem. Div. Soils C.S.I.R.O. 10/53:1-6.
  4. Hnatiuk, R. J. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. 1990
  5. Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117. 1987
  6. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
  7. Isely, D. 1981. Leguminosae of the United States. III. Subfamily Papilionoideae: tribes Sophoreae, Podalyrieae, and Loteae. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 25(3):145.
  8. Iwatsuki, K. et al. Flora of Japan. 1993-
  9. Jessop, J. P. & H. R. Toelken, eds. Flora of South Australia, ed. 4. 1986
  10. Larsen, K. & A. Žertová. 1965. The Australian Lotus species: A comparative taxonomical study. Feddes Repert. 72:1-18.
  11. Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993
  12. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  13. Willis, J. H. A handbook to plants in Victoria. 1970-1972
Common names
English
Australian trefoil –
Barwon River lotus –
Barwon River lucerne –
Barwon River trefoil –
poison-clover –
Japanese Rōmaji
shirobana-miyakogusa –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaJapanRyukyu Islands 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaTaiwan  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPhilippines  
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNew South Wales 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNorthern Territory 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueensland 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaSouth Australia 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaTasmania 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaVictoria 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaWestern Australia 
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • EASTERN ASIA: Japan [Ryukyu Islands], Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
  • MALESIA: Philippines
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia]
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Vertebrate poisonsmammals Lazarides, M. & B. Hince. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. 1993
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=22686. Accessed 18 July 2025.


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