Medicago intertexta, (L.) Miller
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14. M. intertexta (L.) Miller View in CoL , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 4 (1768).
Nearly glabrous procumbent or ascending annual up to 50 cm. Leaflets obovate, cuneate, denticulate, sometimes with a dark spot; stipules ovate to ovate-lanceolate, incise-dentate. Racemes 1- to 7(-10)-flowered. Corolla 6-9 mm. Legume 12-15 mm in diameter, in a spiral of (3—)6—10 turns, ovoid, cylindrical or rarely discoid, convex at both ends, glabrous except often for the spines; transverse veins strong, anastomosing and forming a tangentially elongated network; spines usually 3-4 mm, curved and appressed to the legume. Mediterranean region and Portugal. G r Hs It Lu Sa Si [Ga], M. granadensis Willd. , Enum. Pl. Hort. Berol. 803 (1809), from S. Spain (near Malaga ), appears to be a variant of 14 with discoid fruits.
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Medicago intertexta
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981 |
M. intertexta (L.)
| Miller 1768: 8 |