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Rusty Tick-trefoil

Desmodium rhytidophyllum

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 187, February 198, March 254, April 255, May 133, June 110, July 80, August 57, September 70, October 60, November 85, December 135.
Australia1,624
Queensland1,347
New South Wales277

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Nitrogen fixingDescends from a plant lineage commonly associated with nitrogen-fixing symbioses.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomPlants · Plantae
PhylumVascular Plants · Tracheophyta
ClassDicots · Magnoliopsida
OrderLegumes, Milkworts, and Allies · Fabales
FamilyLegumes · Fabaceae
Genusticktrefoils · Desmodium

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Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Rusty Tick-trefoil with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.