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Entre 100 y 150 especies. En argentina están presentes 4 especies:
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El género Lotus contiene aproximadamente 150 especies distribuidas por todo el mundo, adaptadas a un amplio rango de habitats, mayormente de zonas bajas costeras, y poca altitud.
Las especies de Lotus son utilizadas como alimento de larvas de Lepidopteros.
Especies distribuidas en Argentina[]
- Lotus corniculatus: BAI, COS, ERI, LPA
- Lotus glaber: BAI, LPA
- Lotus pedunculatus: CHU, ERI, NEU, RNE, TDF
- Lotus suaveolens: BAI, ERI
Especies mundiales[]
- Lotus aboriginus - Rosy Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus alamosanus - Sonoran Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus angustissimus - Slender Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus argophyllus - Silver Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus argyraeus - Canyon Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus benthamii - Bentham's Deervetch
- Lotus berthelotii - Canary Islands Trefoil
- Lotus corniculatus - Common Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus crassifolius - Big Deervetch
- Lotus creticus
- Lotus dendroideus - Island Deervetch
- Lotus denticulatus - Riverbar Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus formosissimus - Seaside Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus glaber - Narrow-leaf Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus grandiflorus - Chaparral Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus greenei - Greene's Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus hamatus - San Diego Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus haydonii - Rock Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus heermannii - Heermann's Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus humistratus - Foothill Deervetch
- Lotus incanus - Woolly Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus intricatus - Arid Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus jacobaeus
- Lotus japonicus
- Lotus junceus - Rush Deervetch
- Lotus maritimus
- Lotus mearnsii - Mearns' Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus micranthus - Desert Deervetch
- Lotus nevadensis - Nevada Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus nuttallianus - Wire Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus oblongifolius - Streambank Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus ornithopoides
- Lotus palustris
- Lotus parviflorus - Smallflower Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus pedunculatus - Big Trefoil
- Lotus pinnatus - Meadow Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus plebeius - New Mexico Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus procumbens - Silky Deerweed
- Lotus rigidus - (Desert rock pea), Shrubby Deervetch
- Lotus rubriflorus - Redflower Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus salsuginosus - Coastal Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus scoparius - Common Deerweed
- Lotus sessilifolius
- Lotus stipularis - Balsam Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus strigosus - Strigose Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus suaveolens - Hairy Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus subbiflorus - Hairy Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus tenuis - Narrowleaf Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus tetragonolobus - Winged Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus unifoliolatus - American Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus uliginosus - Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus utahensis - Utah Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus wrangelianus - Chilean Bird's-foot Trefoil
- Lotus wrightii - Wright's Deervetch
- Lotus yollabolliensis - Yolla Bolly Bird's-foot Trefoil