Medicago minima

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Fabales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Eudicots Cladus: Core eudicots Cladus: Rosids Cladus: Eurosids I Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Trifolieae
Genus: Medicago
Species: Medicago minima

Name

Medicago minima (L.) Bartal., 1776

Synonyms

Medica hirsuta (L.) Bubani, Fl. Pyren. 2: 477 (1900)
Medicago americana Larrañaga
Medicago arabica var. echinata Weston, Bot. Univ., 3: 481 (1772)
Medicago brachyacantha A.Kern., Österr. Bot. Zeitschr. 18: 386 (1868)
Medicago elongata (Rochel) Simonk. ex A.Kern., Sched. Fl. Exsicc. Austr.-Hung., 6: 4 (1893)
Medicago graeca Hornem., Hort. Hafn. 2: 728 (1815)
Medicago hirsutissima Cirillo ex Steud., Nom. ed. II. 2: 109 (1808)
Medicago inconspicua Nevski, Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S. S. S. R., ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyss. Rast., 4: 250 (1937)
Medicago lineata Tausch, Flora, 14: 210 (1831)
Medicago meyeri Gruner, Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 40(2)- 416 (1867)
Medicago minima (L.) Bartalini, Cat. Pl. Siena: 61 (1776) isonym
Medicago minima f. elongata (Rochel) Asch. & Graebn., Syn., 6(2): 438 (1906)
Medicago minima f. mollissima (Roth) Urb., Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb., 15: 78 (1873)
Medicago minima f. pubescens (Webb) Urb., Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb., 15: 78 (1873)
Medicago minima f. pulchella (Lowe) Kozuharov, Fl. Nar. Republ. Bulgariya, 6: 317 (1976)
Medicago minima f. viscida (W.D.J.Koch) Urb., Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb., 15: 78 (1873)
Medicago minima f. vulgaris (Urb.) Morariu, Fl. Rom., 5: 136 (1957)
Medicago minima ssp. brevispina (Benth.) Ponert, Feddes Repert. 83: 639 (1973)
Medicago minima ssp. ononidea Rouy, Fl. France 5: 40 (1899)
Medicago minima ssp. pulchella (Lowe) Arcang., Comp. Fl. Ital.: 165 (1882)
Medicago minima ssp. pulchella (Lowe) Menezes, Fl. Arch. Madeira: 45 (1914), isonym
Medicago minima ssp. recta (Desf.) Malag., Fl. Tarragona Pl. Vasc.: 18 (1971)
Medicago minima subvar. pubescens (Webb) Rouy, Fl. Fr., 5: 41 (1899)
Medicago minima var. brachyodon Rchb., Fl. Germ. Excurs., 2: 502 (1832)
Medicago minima var. brevispina Benth., Engl. Bot.,: tab. 2635 (1826)
Medicago minima var. brevispina Lowe, Man. Fl. Madeira 1: 166 (1862), isonym
Medicago minima var. canescens Ser., DC., Prodr., 2: 178 (1825)
Medicago minima var. compacta Neyraut, Bull. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux 52: 108 (1897)
Medicago minima var. elongata Rochel, Pl. Banat. Rar.: 51 (1828)
Medicago minima var. exilis Lange, Pag. Pl. Hisp., 4: 167 (1866)
Medicago minima var. graeca (Hornem.) Candargy, Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr., 45: 192 (1898)
Medicago minima var. hirsuta (All.) Fiori, Nuova Fl. Anal. Italia 1: 837 (1925)
Medicago minima var. intermedia Kozuharov, Bldg. Acad. Sci., 15: 161 (1965)
Medicago minima var. longiseta DC. ex Ser., DC., Prodr., 2: 178 (1825)
Medicago minima var. longiseta Ser., Prodr. [DC. & Lam.] 2: 178 (1825)
Medicago minima var. longispina Lowe, Man. Fl. Mut., 1: 136 (1868)
Medicago minima var. maior Moris, Fl. Sard., 1: 451 (1837)
Medicago minima var. mollissima (Roth) W.D.J.Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. Helv.: 164 (1835)
Medicago minima var. pubescens Webb in Webb & Berthel., Phytogr. Can., 2: 65 (1842)
Medicago minima var. pulchella (Lowe) Lowe, Man. Fl. Madeira 1: 166 (1862)
Medicago minima var. recta (Desf.) Burnat, Fl. Alpes Marit. 2: 109 (1896)
Medicago minima var. stenophylla Clavaud, Fl.: 263 (1884)
Medicago minima var. viscida W.D.J.Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. Helv.: 164 (1835)
Medicago minima var. vulgaris Urb., Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb., 15: 78 (1873)
Medicago minima var. winterlii Priszter, Bot. Közlem., 59(1): 45 (1972)
Medicago mollissima Roth, Bot. Abh. Beobachte: 49 (1787)
Medicago ononidea (Rouy) A.W.Hill, Index Kew. Suppl. 6: 125 (1926)
Medicago polonica Bellardi ex Balb.
Medicago polymorpha var. hirsuta L., Sp. Pl., 2: 780 (1753)
Medicago polymorpha var. minima L., Sp. Pl.: 780 (1753)
Medicago polymorpha var. recta Desf., Fl. Atlant., 2: 212 (1799)
Medicago pulchella Lowe, Trans. Cambridge Philos. Soc 6: 547 (1838)
Medicago recta (Desf.) Willd., Sp. Pl. 3: 1415 (1802)
Medicago sessilis Peyron ex Post, Fl. Syria, Palest. & Sinai, 10 (1896)
Medicago villosa Brot.
Ononis ornithopodioides Sieber ex Tausch
Spirocarpus minimus (L.) Opiz, Seznam, 93 (1852)

Distribution

Native distribution areas:

Continental: Africa
- Regional: Northern Africa
  - Algeria, Canary Is.,Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, Madeira, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia
Continental: Eurasia
- Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Manchuria, Netherlands, North Caucasus, Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Socotra, Somalia, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, Yemen, Yugoslavia
Introduced into:
- Alabama, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Baltic States, Belarus, California, Chile Central, Chile South, Hawaii, Illinois, Japan, Korea, New Caledonia, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Northern Territory, Oklahoma, Oregon, Primorye, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Texas, Uruguay, Venezuela, Victoria, West Siberia, Western Australia

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Primary references

Bartalini, B., 1776. Cat. Piante Siena: 60

Additional references

Werier, D. (2017). Catalogue of the Vascular plants of New York state Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 27: 1-542.
Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Lesins K. A., Lesins I., 1979 - Genus Medicago (Leguminosae), a taxogenetic study. Dr. W. Lunk, Publishers, The Hauge.
Small E., Jomphe M., 1989 - A synopsis of the genus Medicago (Leguminosae). Can. J. Bot. 67: 3260–3291.

Links

Govaerts, R. et al. 2021. Medicago minima in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Jun 09. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2021. Medicago minima. Published online. Accessed: Jun 09 2021.
Tropicos.org 2021. Medicago minima. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 09 Jun 2021.
Hassler, M. 2021. Medicago minima. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2021. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2021 Jun 09. Reference page.
Hassler, M. 2021. World Plants. Synonymic Checklist and Distribution of the World Flora. . Medicago minima. Accessed: 09 Jun 2021.

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Zwerg-Schneckenklee
eesti: Väike lutsern
suomi: Pikkumailanen
Nederlands: Kleine Rupsklaver

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