Details for: PI 227031, Medicago arabica (L.) Huds., No. 14599

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Medicago arabica (L.) Huds.

Top Name:

No. 14599

Origin:

Collected – Iran

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

13 Jul 1955

PI Assigned:

1955

Improvement Status:

Uncertain improvement status

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Annual

Life Cycle:

Annual

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Inventory Volume:

163
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	100 count		PI 227031 93i SD

Seed available for distribution is a limited resource. The quantity of seed distributed is hopefully sufficient to conduct the intended research. If additional seed is required, the recipient is urged to grow and reproduce the seed. Repeated requests for seed of the same accession will not be honored.

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Medicago arabica (L.) Huds.

Top Name:

No. 14599

Origin:

Collected – Iran

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

13 Jul 1955

PI Assigned:

1955

Improvement Status:

Uncertain improvement status

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Annual

Life Cycle:

Annual

Source History

Collected

01 April 1955.
Iran
Locality: 40 km Northeast of Ahwaz, Hormozgan, Iran.
Coordinates: 31.6000, 48.9000 (Map it)
Elevation: 152m.
Environment description: Sand hills. (Note)
Comment: Collected in April and May, 1955.
Collector(s):

Gentry, Howard Scott, Crops Research Division - USDA-ARS

Accession Names and Identifiers

No. 14599

Type: Collector identifier

G 4936

Type: Site identifier

Group: GENEVA

Ids used by the North Eastern Plant Intro. Station; N. Y.

Northeast Regional PI Station

Narrative

Low spreading annual. Diffuse, erect, drought-inhibited; winter/spring annual, 10-15 cm long; slender peduncles and prickled pods. Gentry recommends planting as spring forage inthe southwestern U. S. (Collector Notes)

Medicago arabica (L.) Huds.

Genus:

Medicago

Section:

Spirocarpos

Subsection:

Leptospireae

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Trifolieae

Nomen number:

23555

Place of publication:

Fl. angl. 288. 1762

Verified:

05/22/1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Medicago polymorpha L. var. arabica L.

Autonym(s)
Medicago arabica (L.) Huds. subsp. arabica

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Medicago arabica (L.) Huds. subsp. inermis Ricker
Medicago cordata Desr.
Medicago maculata Sibth.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	spotted bur-clover	1	1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
English	spotted medic	1	Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966-. Flora of Iraq.
English	spotted medick	1	Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
English	spotted-leaf medic	1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
French	luzerne d'Arabie	2	Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7 GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France.
French	luzerne maculée	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
German	arabischer Schneckenklee	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italian	medica maculata	2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanese Rōmaji	montsuki-uma-goyashi	2	Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan.
Spanish	trébol de carretilla	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanish	trébol manchado	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedish	fläcklusern	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese	he ban mu xu	2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).

Annotations

Taxonomic Re-Identification: 17 Sep 1986, from Medicago arabica (L.) Huds. to Medicago orbicularis (L.) Bartal.
Taxonomic Re-Identification: 17 Jul 1997, from Medicago orbicularis (L.) Bartal. to Medicago arabica (L.) Huds.

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Inventory
GROWTH	Winter vigor	Winter vigor	3 - (1 = HIGHEST, 9 = LOWEST)	MEDIC.WINTVIGOR.93.GRAVES	PI 227031 93i SD
GROWTH	Growth habit	Plant growth habit	5 - (1 = ERECT, 9 = PROSTRATE)	MEDIC.GROWTHHAB.93.GRAVES	PI 227031 93i SD
GROWTH	Plant Height	Plant height measured in centimeters (mean of 3 mature plants).	2	MEDIC.HEIGHT.92.BAUCHAN	PI 227031 93i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Seed weight 100	Weight of 100 seeds in grams.	0.23	MEDIC.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPIS	PI 227031 93i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Plant Maximal Spread	Plant maximal spread, width of the largest mature plant measured in centimeters.	9	MEDIC.SPREAD.92.BAUCHAN	PI 227031 93i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Leaflet Width	Leaflet width in millimeters taken on 1 branch on 3 plants between second and third internode at prebloom stage	12	MEDIC.LEAFLETWD.92.BAUCHAN	PI 227031 93i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Leaflet Length	Leaflet length in millimeters taken on 1 branch on 3 plants between second and third internode at prebloom stage	10	MEDIC.LEAFLETLT.92.BAUCHAN	PI 227031 93i SD
PHENOLOGY	Days to flower	Days from seeding to first open flower	112	MEDIC.DAYSFLOWER.93.GRAVES	PI 227031 93i SD
PRODUCTION	Biomass Among Species	Plant biomass among species	5 - (1 = HIGHEST, 9 = POOR)	MEDIC.BIOMASS.93.GRAVES	PI 227031 93i SD
PRODUCTION	Visual pod production	Visual pod production	8 - (1 = HIGHEST, 9 = POOREST)	MEDIC.PODPRODUCT.93.GRAVES	PI 227031 93i SD
PRODUCTION	Grams of seed produced	Grams of seed produced	83	MEDIC.GRAMSPROD.93.GRAVES	PI 227031 93i SD