Details for: PI 642778, Medicago minima (L.) Bartal., 'DEVINE'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Medicago minima (L.) Bartal.
Cultivar:
'DEVINE'
Origin:
Donated – Texas, United States
Received by NPGS:
30 May 2006
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Reproductive Uniformity:

Pureline
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Medicago minima (L.) Bartal.
Cultivar:
'DEVINE'
Origin:
Donated – Texas, United States
Received by NPGS:
30 May 2006
Improvement Status:
Cultivar
Reproductive Uniformity:

Pureline
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Accession Names and Identifiers
'DEVINE'
Type: Cultivar name

BEDEV
Type: Other or unclassified name

Narrative
Winter annual legume with a high hard seed content, good freeze tolerance, and has proven to persist for years in pastures from north central to south Texas. The plant germinates with good vigor in the fall when the rains come, grows throughout the winter and will mature and die in April or May. Flowering is indeterminate, with seed setting over several weeks. Seeds are set in burrs (4 to 5 seeds per burr) with spines about 2 to 3 mm long. Devine typically has a seed mass of about 0.09 to 0.11 g per 100 seed. Forage yield is about 3000 to 6000 kg ha-1 when grown as a monoculture. Dry matter yields in a perennial grass stand are usually much less, but it is usually sufficient to replace most of the N-fertilizer required in pasture systems in semi-arid central Texas.
Medicago minima (L.) Bartal.
Genus:
Medicago
Section:
Spirocarpos
Subsection:
Leptospireae
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Trifolieae
Nomen number:

23621
Place of publication:

Cat. delle piante Siena 61. 1776 (Grufb. in L.,Fl. angl. 21. 1754, nom. inval.)
Comment:
Grufberg probably did not intend to make this combination
Verified:
02/21/1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Medicago polymorpha L. var. minima L.

Autonym(s)
Medicago minima (L.) Bartal. var. minima

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Medicago meyeri Gruner
Medicago minima (L.) Bartal. var. brachyodon Rchb.
Medicago minima (L.) Bartal. var. brevispina Benth.
Medicago sessilis Peyron ex Post

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishbur medick  1Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
Englishlittle bur-clover  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishlittle medic  1Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Englishsmall medic  1Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Englishwoolly trefoil  1Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Swedishsandlusern  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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Citations
  • Ocumpaugh, W. R., D. N. Ueckert, J. P. Muir, T. J. Butler, & R. L. Reed. 2007. Registration of ‘Devine’ Little Burr Medic. J. Pl. Registr. 1(1):031. DOI: 10.3198/jpr2006.05.0338crc. Number of accessions cited: 1
Pedigree
Description:
Originated from a naturalized stand in a pasture on the Anderlitch Ranch south of Farm to Market Road 2200 and west of Devine, TX, 56 km southwest of San Antonio. Evaluation of spaced plants of the original collection revealed very little variation among plants, therefore the original accession was increased without selection.
Intellectual Property Rights
Journal of Plant Registration. CV-273, OTHER LEGUMES. Issued: 01 May 2007.
  • Ocumpaugh, W. R., D. N. Ueckert, J. P. Muir, T. J. Butler, & R. L. Reed. 2007. Registration of ‘Devine’ Little Burr Medic. J. Pl. Registr. 1(1):031. DOI: 10.3198/jpr2006.05.0338crc.
Restriction. REST 642778, OTHER LEGUMES.