Details for: PI 138734, Medicago littoralis Rohde ex Loisel., 68-441


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Medicago littoralis Rohde ex Loisel.
Top Name:
68-441
Origin:
Collected – Kars, Turkey
Received by NPGS:
02 Jul 1940
PI Assigned:
1940
Improvement Status:
Uncertain improvement status
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Availability
FormQuantityNoteInventoryCart
Seed100 countPI 138734 2008i 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 littoralis Rohde ex Loisel.
Top Name:
68-441
Origin:
Collected – Kars, Turkey
Received by NPGS:
02 Jul 1940
PI Assigned:
1940
Improvement Status:
Uncertain improvement status
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Collected
NEAR 14 April 1940.
Kars, Turkey
Locality: From Bushire, Fars (misspelling of Kars)

Collector(s):
Donated
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
68-441
Type: Institute identifier
USDA Forage and Range Branch

5860
Type: Collector identifier
Koelz, Walter c/o American Consul

Narrative
An ephemeral, prostrate plant, dying down during the hot dry summer (Collectors Notes). 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 littoralis Rohde ex Loisel.
Genus:
Medicago
Section:
Spirocarpos
Subsection:
Pachyspireae
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Trifolieae
Nomen number:

23612
Place of publication:

Not. fl. France 118. 1810
Comment:
spelling verified from original literature
Verified:
10/13/1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Medicago littoralis Rohde ex Loisel. var. littoralis (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Medicago littoralis Rohde ex Loisel. var. inermis Moris

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishshore medick  1Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
Englishstrand medic  1University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
Italianmedica litorale  2International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
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Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
MORPHOLOGYSeed weight 100Weight of 100 seeds in grams.0.15 MEDIC.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPISPI 138734 2008i SD