Details for: PI 577411, Medicago polymorpha L., 408

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Medicago polymorpha L.

Top Name:

408

Origin:

Collected – Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

11 Feb 1990

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Reproductive Uniformity:

Population

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Annual

Life Cycle:

Annual

Backup Location:

National Laboratory for Genetic Resources Preservation

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	100 count		PI 577411 91i 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 polymorpha L.

Top Name:

408

Origin:

Collected – Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Maintained:

Western Regional PI Station

Received by NPGS:

11 Feb 1990

Improvement Status:

Cultivated material

Reproductive Uniformity:

Population

Form Received:

Seed

Life Form:

Annual

Life Cycle:

Annual

Source History

Collected

Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Comment: Collector obtained material from Botanical Garden, Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

Donated

11 February 1990.
Alberta, Canada

Donor(s):

Seymour, P. N. D., University of Alberta

Accession Names and Identifiers

408

Type: Collector identifier

Identifier assigned by K.A. Lesins and I. Lesins

W6 4648

Type: Site identifier

Group: W6

Western Regional Plant Introduction (W6) accession numbers

USDA-ARS, WRPIS

Narrative

Medicago polymorpha L.

Genus:

Medicago

Section:

Spirocarpos

Subsection:

Leptospireae

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Trifolieae

Nomen number:

23645

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:779. 1753

Comment:

since Medicago polymorpha L. did not have a holotype or syntypes, all 13 varietal names of Linnaeus are validly published fide Shenzhen ICN Art. 26, Ex. 4

Typification:

View in Linnean Typification Project

Verified:

06/09/1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Medicago polymorpha L. var. brevispina (Benth.) Heyn (35 active accession[s])
Medicago polymorpha L. var. denticulata (Willd.) Kerguélen (33 active accession[s])
Medicago polymorpha L. var. polymorpha (113 active accession[s])

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

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Medicago hispida Gaertn.
Medicago hispida Gaertn. f. hispida
Medicago hispida Gaertn. var. hispida

Common names

Language	Name	note	seq	Citation
English	bur medic		1	University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
English	bur trefoil		1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English	California bur-clover		1	Hickman, J. C., ed. 1993. The Jepson manual: higher plants of California
English	hairy medic	as Medicago nigra	1	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Medicago nigra
English	rough medic		1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English	toothed bur-clover		1	Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966-. Flora of Iraq.
English	toothed medic		1	Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
English	toothed medick		1	Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
English	trefoil-clover		1	Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Arabic	nafal		2	Boulos, L. 1999-. Flora of Egypt
French	luzerne hérissée	as Medicago nigra	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Medicago nigra
German	rauher Schneckenklee	as Medicago nigra	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Medicago nigra
Italian	medica ispida		2	International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Japanese Rōmaji	uma-goyashi		2	Batra, L. R. 1995. Names of Japanese plants sorted by their Japanese names in Romanized Katakana and scientific nomenclature
Spanish	carretón de amores	as Medicago nigra	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Medicago nigra
Spanish	trébol de carretilla	as Medicago nigra	2	Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants Note: = Medicago nigra
Swedish	tagglusern		2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transcribed Chinese	nan mu xu		2	Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
Transcribed Korean	gaejari	as Medicago hispida	2	Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea. Note: = Medicago polymorpha L.

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study	Inventory
GROWTH	Growth habit	Plant growth habit	5 - (1 = ERECT, 9 = PROSTRATE)	MEDIC.GROWTHHAB.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
GROWTH	Plant Height	Plant height measured in centimeters (mean of 3 mature plants).	21	MEDIC.HEIGHT.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Seed weight 100	Weight of 100 seeds in grams.	0.36	MEDIC.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPIS	PI 577411 91i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Pod Spines	Pod spines	5 - Very short spines	MEDIC.SPINES.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Plant Maximal Spread	Plant maximal spread, width of the largest mature plant measured in centimeters.	111	MEDIC.SPREAD.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Days to Full Pod Production	Days from seeding to the first plant in full pod stage.	116	MEDIC.DAYSPOD.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Leaflet Width	Leaflet width in millimeters taken on 1 branch on 3 plants between second and third internode at prebloom stage	14	MEDIC.LEAFLETWD.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Leaflet Length	Leaflet length in millimeters taken on 1 branch on 3 plants between second and third internode at prebloom stage	20	MEDIC.LEAFLETLT.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Flower Per Raceme	Number of flowers per raceme (mean of five randomly chosen flowering racemes from different plants)	3.8	MEDIC.FLOWERNOD.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Pods Per Raceme	Number of pods per raceme (mean of five randomly chosen racemes with pods from different plants)	1.4	MEDIC.PODNO.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
MORPHOLOGY	Internode Length	Measured in centimeters on third internode from base on longest branch of three plants	2.8	MEDIC.INTERNOLG.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
PHENOLOGY	Days to flower	Days from seeding to first open flower	91	MEDIC.DAYSFLOWER.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
PRODUCTION	Biomass Among Species	Plant biomass among species	2 - (1 = HIGHEST, 9 = POOR)	MEDIC.BIOMASS.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
PRODUCTION	Visual pod production	Visual pod production	1 - HIGHEST	MEDIC.PODPRODUCT.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD
PRODUCTION	Biomass Within Species	Biomass within species compared to other accessions of that species.	1 - Highest	MEDIC.BIOMSP.92.BAUCHAN	PI 577411 91i SD