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Taxon:  Medicago rigidula (L.) All.



Summary
Genus:
Medicago
Section:
Spirocarpos
Subsection:
Pachyspireae
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Trifolieae
Nomen number:
23668
Place of publication:
Fl. pedem. 1:316. 1785
Comment:
non Medicago rigidula auct. Asian (= M. rigiduloides E. Small)
Verified:
06/10/1987 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
24 (24  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Medicago polymorpha L. var. rigidula L.

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Medicago agrestis Ten.
Medicago cinerascens Jord.
Medicago gerardi Waldst. & Kit. ex Willd.
Medicago morisiana Jord.
Medicago muricata (L.) All.
Medicago polymorpha L. var. muricata L.
Medicago rigidula (L.) All. var. agrestis (Ten.) Burnat
Medicago rigidula (L.) All. var. cinerascens (Jord.) Rouy
Medicago rigidula (L.) All. var. morisiana (Jord.) Rouy
Medicago rigidula (L.) All. var. submitis Boiss.
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Reference(s)
  1. Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource). Note: http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/content/related/Medicago_rigidula/
  2. Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. Flora of Libya. 1976-
  3. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Medicago+rigidula&quantity=1
  4. Greuter, W. et al., eds. Med-Checklist. 1984-
  5. Heyn, C. C. 1963. The annual species of Medicago. Scripta Hierosolymitana 12:103.
  6. Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc. 1931-1941
  7. Kartesz, J. T. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994
  8. Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. Flora SSSR. 1934-1964
  9. Lesins, K. A. & I. Lesins. 1979. Genus Medicago (Leguminosae). A taxogenetic study. 1979 170.
  10. Pignatti, S. Flora d'Italia. 1982
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  12. Quézel, P. & S. Santa. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. 1962-1963 Note: lists as M. rigidula Desr.
  13. Quiros, C. F. & G. R. Bauchan. 1988. The genus Medicago and the origin of the Medicago sativa complex. In A. A. Hanson et al., eds., Alfalfa and alfalfa improvement. Agronomy 29:93-124.
  14. Small, E. & M. Jomphe. 1989. A synopsis of the genus Medicago (Leguminosae). Canad. J. Bot. 67:3270.
  15. Small, E. et al. 1981. The taxonomic value of floral characters in tribe Trigonelleae (Leguminosae), with special reference to Medicago. Canad. J. Bot. 59:1580.
  16. Small, E. 1981. A numerical analysis of major groupings in Medicago employing traditionally used characters. Canad. J. Bot. 59:1555.
  17. Smythies, B. E. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882. 1984-1986
  18. Täckholm, V. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2. 1974
  19. Terrell, E. E. et al. Agric. Handb. no. 505. 1986
  20. Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. Flora of Iraq. 1966-
  21. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
  22. Yakovlev, G. P. et al. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. 1996
  23. Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. Flora palaestina. 1966-
Common names
English
Tifton bur-clover –
Tifton medic –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaAlgeria n.
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaEgypt n.
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaLibya possibly n.w.
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaMorocco  
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaTunisia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusArmenia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusAzerbaijan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusGeorgia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusRussian FederationChecheno-Ingushetia 
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusRussian FederationDagestan 
1NativeAsia-TemperateCaucasusRussian FederationKrasnodar 
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaKazakhstan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaKyrgyzstan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaTajikistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaTurkmenistan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaUzbekistan  
1NativeEuropeEast EuropeMoldova  
1NativeEuropeEast EuropeRussian Federation-European partEuropean part 
1NativeEuropeEast EuropeUkraine incl. Krym
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeAlbania  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeBulgaria  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeFormer Yugoslavia  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeGreece incl. Crete
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeItaly incl. Sardinia, Sicily
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeRomania  
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropeFrance incl. Corsica
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropePortugal  
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropeSpain incl. Baleares
4NaturalizedEuropeMiddle EuropeCzechoslovakia  
4NaturalizedEuropeMiddle EuropeHungary  
Native
Africa
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria (n.), Egypt (n.), Libya (possibly n.w.), Morocco, Tunisia
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Krasnodar]
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Europe
  • EAST EUROPE: Russian Federation-European part [European part], Moldova, Ukraine (incl. Krym)
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Former Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (incl. Crete), Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Romania
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Spain (incl. Baleares), France (incl. Corsica), Portugal
Naturalized
Europe
  • MIDDLE EUROPE: Czechoslovakia, Hungary
Economic Uses
Animal food


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