Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 767 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Gallia, Italia."

Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 533 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 310 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 453, Fig. 625 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 155 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 250 [secondary reference]

common name: Subterranean Clover [n/a]

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 188 [secondary reference]

Katznelson, J. & Morley, F.H.W. (1965), A Taxonomic Revision of Sect. Calycomorphum of the genus Trifolium. I. The Geocarpic Species. Israel Journal of Botany 14: 117-132 [secondary reference]

Morley. F.H.W. & Katznelson, J. (1965), Colonization in Australia by Trifolium subterraneum L. The Genetics of Colonizing Species: 269-282 [secondary reference]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 221 [secondary reference]

common name: Subterraneum Clover [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 159 [secondary reference]

common name: Subterranean Clover [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 427 [secondary reference]

common name: Sub Clover [n/a] common name: Subterranean Clover [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 129 [secondary reference]

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 284, 286, Fig. 46D [secondary reference]

common name: Subterranean Clover [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 101 [secondary reference]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Papilionaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 307 [secondary reference]

common name: Subterranean Clover [n/a]

Weston, P.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Trifolium. Flora of New South Wales 2: 461 [secondary reference]

common name: Subterranean Clover [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 194 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 731-732, Fig. 147c [secondary reference]

common name: Subterranean Clover [n/a]

Weston, P.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Trifolium. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 631 [secondary reference]

common name: Subterranean Clover [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 783 [secondary reference]

common name: Subterranean Clover [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Trifolium subterraneum L. var. subterraneum legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Trifolium subterraneum L. subsp. subterraneum legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trifolium subterraneum var. flagelliforme Guss. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trifolium subterraneum var. brachycladum Gibelli & Belli legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trifolium subterraneum subsp. yanninicum Katzn. & F.H.W.Morley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trifolium subterraneum var. brachycalycinum Katzn. & F.H.W.Morley legitimate taxonomic synonym: Trifolium subterraneum subsp. brachycalycinum Katzn. & F.H.W.Morley legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 310-311, photos 6-9 [secondary reference]

common name: Subterranean Clover [n/a]

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 47 [secondary reference]

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