Trifolium michelianum var. michelianum

Erect or ascending annual herb; stems 30–60 cm long, branching extensively, glabrous. Leaves palmately trifoliolate, short- to long-petiolate; leaflets obovate or oblong, 10–30 mm long, 6–20 mm wide, glabrous, apex rounded or retuse, mucronate, margins dentate-spinulose. Inflorescence many-flowered, axillary, globular to umbellate, c. 25 mm long, to c. 30 mm wide, pedunculate; flowers pedicellate. Calyx up to 6 mm long, tube turbinate, 10-veined, throat open, teeth 2–4 times as long as tube, almost equal, subulate; corolla 9–13 mm long, pink, persistent; standard ovate-oblong, more or less acute, much longer than wings, apical margin entire. Pod ovoid-obloid, 3–4 mm long, stipitate, exserted from calyx tube; seeds 1–2, ovoid–obloid, c. 1 mm long, brown.  Flowers spring and summer.