Poiret, J.L.M. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1808), Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 8: 20-21 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Cette plante a été recueillie par Commerson au détroit de Magellan. (v.s. in herb. Lam.)"

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 189 [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

orthographic variant: Trifolium polymorpha Poir. orth. var.

• APC Comment: Recorded by A.D.Chapman, Austral. Pl. Name Index 2902 (1991) as listed in Hj.Eichler, Fl. S. Australia 2nd edn, suppl. 189 (1965), but this appears to be an error by Chapman, possibly for Medicago polymorpha.

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