Medicago prostrata, Jacq.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 154

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.293200

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scientific name

Medicago prostrata
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6. M. prostrata Jacq. View in CoL , Hort. Vindob. 1: 39 (1770).

Slender, nearly or quite glabrous perennial 10-40 cm. Leaflets oblong- or linear-cuneate, dentate at apex; stipules ovate-lanceolate, the lower deeply dentate. Racemes usually 1- to 6-flowered. Corolla c. 4 mm. Pedicels 2 -2 | times as long as calyx, slender, recurved in fruit. Legume 3-4 mm in diameter, in a rather lax spiral of 2-3 turns, pendent, glabrous or glandular, not spiny; transverse veins slender, anastomosing freely, but not forming an intermediate vein parallel to the marginal vein. 2n = 32. Dry grassland. • From E. Austria and Italy to the Black Sea. Al Au Cz Hu It Ju Rm.

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Fabales

Family

Fabaceae

Genus

Medicago

Loc

Medicago prostrata

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981
1981
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