Medicago arabica, (L.) Hudson
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30. M. arabica (L.) Hudson View in CoL , Fl. Angl. 288 (1762)
( M. maculata Sibth. ).
Sparsely pubescent to glabrous annual up to 50 cm. Leaflets usually obcordate, cuneate, dentate near the apex, usually with a dark spot. Racemes 1- to 4(-6)-flowered. Corolla 5-7 mm. Legume (4-)5-6 mm in diameter, in a lax spiral of 4-7 turns, subglobose to shortly ellipsoid, somewhat flattened at both ends, glabrous, usually spiny; transverse veins curved, anastomosing and forming a tangentially elongated network near the margin; margin with 3 grooves, the lateral deeper and wider than the central; spines usually as long as the diameter of the legume, deeply sulcate. 5. Europe extending north-westwards to Britain and the Netherlands and eastwards to Krym; a frequent casual further north. Al Be BI Br Bu Co Ga Ge G r Ho Hs Hu It Ju Lu Rm Rs (K) Sa Si?Tu [Cz Hb He Su].
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Medicago arabica
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1981 |
M. arabica (L.)
| Hudson 1762: 288 |