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Keys
  • Vascular plant groups
  • Club mosses
  • Ferns
  • Vegetative key to families
  • Gymnosperms
  • Flowering plants
  • Genera
  • Families
Vascular plants

Magnoliophyta

Magnoliopsida

Fabaceae

Faboideae

Melilotus

  • Melilotus albus
  • Melilotus indicus
  • Melilotus officinalis

Melilotus Mill.

4 species naturalized Aust.; all states and territories

Glabrous, erect herbs. Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets denticulate. Flowers in long axillary pedunculate racemes. Calyx 5-toothed, nearly equal. Stamens connate with upper one free. Ovules 2–8. Fruit drooping, indehiscent, exceeding the calyx, 1–2-seeded.