Details for: PI 368952, Medicago polymorpha L. var. polymorpha, W 340


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Medicago polymorpha L. var. polymorpha
Top Name:
W 340
Origin:
Collected – United States
Received by NPGS:
27 Sep 1971
PI Assigned:
1972
Improvement Status:
Uncertain improvement status
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Availability
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Seed100 countPI 368952 2008i SD
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Medicago polymorpha L. var. polymorpha
Top Name:
W 340
Origin:
Collected – United States
Received by NPGS:
27 Sep 1971
PI Assigned:
1972
Improvement Status:
Uncertain improvement status
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Collected
PRE 27 September 1971.
United States
Comment: Origin unknown. Collected in America. 1965 (PI Vol. 180)
Donated
NEAR 27 September 1971.
Australia
Comment: Seed grown at Plant Introduction Station, Kelmscott, Western Australia.
Donor(s):
NEAR 15 September 2007.
Maryland, United States
Comment: This accession was part of the Medicago Species Collection, which was assembled between 1956 and 1978 by the USDA Forage and Range Branch, Crops Research Division, Beltsville, Maryland.
Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
W 340
Type: Unverified name
Based on records, can not determine if this identifier was assigned by the original collector or the donor institute.

72-150
Type: Institute identifier
USDA Forage and Range Branch

W340
Type: Other or unclassified name
Based on available information cannot determine source of alternate name.

Narrative
Previously considered lost, this older Plant Introduction was rediscovered when the Beltsville Medicago Species Collection was donated to the USDA National Plant Germplasm System in 2007 (S.L.Greene, Curator, 2008 ).
Medicago polymorpha L. var. polymorpha
Genus:
Medicago
Section:
Spirocarpos
Subsection:
Leptospireae
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Trifolieae
Nomen number:

310160
Verified:
06/09/1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Medicago polymorpha L. (565 active accession[s])
Medicago polymorpha L. var. brevispina (Benth.) Heyn (35 active accession[s])
Medicago polymorpha L. var. denticulata (Willd.) Kerguélen (33 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Medicago polymorpha L. f. polymorpha

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Medicago hispida Gaertn. f. aculeata Urb.
Medicago hispida Gaertn. unranked lappacea (Desr.) Urb.
Medicago hispida Gaertn. unranked terebellum (Willd.) Urb.
Medicago hispida Gaertn. var. lappacea (Desr.) Urb.
Medicago hispida Gaertn. var. nigra (L.) Burnat
Medicago lappacea Desr.
Medicago nigra (L.) Krock.
Medicago polymorpha L. var. nigra L.
Medicago terebellum Willd.

Common names
Annotations
  • Taxonomic Re-Identification: 17 Sep 1986, from Medicago polymorpha L. var. vulgaris Shinners, nom. inval. to Medicago polymorpha L. var. polymorpha
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