Taxon: Trifolium alexandrinum L.

Common names:

• berseem clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Egyptian clover   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• barseem   (Source: F Egypt ) – Arabic
  
• bersim   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• trèfle d'Alexandrie   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Alexandriner-Klee   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• trifoglio alessandrino   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• trevo-da-Alexandria   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• bersim   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• trébol alenjandrino   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• alexandrinerklöver   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database)
  
• Animal food: forage   (grazing fide Leg WorldEc)
  

More:

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Egypt
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Israel; Jordan; Lebanon

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Sudan
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Pakistan
  Malesia: Indonesia
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California
• also cultivated elsewhere

• probable origin s.w. Asia

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt.
• CIAT/FAO collaboration on tropical forages. Grassland Species Profiles (on-line resource).
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gillett, J. M. & N. L. Taylor (M. Collins ed.). 2001. The world of clovers.
• Hacker, J. B. 1990. A guide to herbaceous and shrub legumes of Queensland.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• International Legume Database & Information Service. International Legume Database and Information Service (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zohary, M. & D. Heller. 1984. The genus Trifolium.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Trifolium alexandrinum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Trifolium alexandrinum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Trifolium alexandrinum.

Check other web resources for Trifolium alexandrinum L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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