Trifolium micranthum Viv., it is an annual herb, glabrescent, erect to procumbent, up to 20 (-30) cm long, with filiform stems. Stipules oblong or ovate, almost free from base. Leaflets obovate to oblong, 5-8 mm long, truncate or retuse at apex, denticulate above; terminal leaflet sub sessile or sessile. Peduncles exceeding the subtending leaves, capillary, becoming ± recurved later. Flowering heads loosely (1-) 2-6 (-10)-flowered, c. 6 mm wide. Flowers c. 3 mm long, yellow, turning yellow-brown later, persistent; pedicels shorter than calyx, becoming deflexed. Calyx c. 2 mm long, membranous, white, 5-nerved, glabrous, teeth longer than tube, often ending in 2 bristles. Pods stipitate, slightly exserted from corolla, lenticular or ± orbicular, 1-2-seeded, dehiscent. Seed ovoid-reniform, sub flattened, brown, shiny.
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