Details for: PI 143866, Medicago praecox DC., MPr-5


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Medicago praecox DC.
Top Name:
MPr-5
Origin:
Donated – Western Australia, Australia
Received by NPGS:
20 Mar 1942
PI Assigned:
1942
Improvement Status:
Uncertain improvement status
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Availability
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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 praecox DC.
Top Name:
MPr-5
Origin:
Donated – Western Australia, Australia
Received by NPGS:
20 Mar 1942
PI Assigned:
1942
Improvement Status:
Uncertain improvement status
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Donated
PRE 20 March 1942.
Western Australia, Australia
Comment: Originally from Kalgoorlie, West Australia. J.R.A. McMillan obtained accession prior to 1942. Reviewed records do not indicate original collecting date or donor/collector.
NEAR 20 March 1942.
Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Comment: Donated to the Division of Plant Introduction and Exploration, Beltsville MD.
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
MPr-5
Type: Institute identifier
Identifier used for germplasm collection housed in Canberra, Australia (1940-1950s). Name of donor institute appears to have changed over time, but likely was a part of Division of Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT.

68-392
Type: Institute identifier
USDA Forage and Range Branch

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 praecox DC.
Genus:
Medicago
Section:
Spirocarpos
Subsection:
Leptospireae
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Trifolieae
Nomen number:

23662
Place of publication:

Cat. pl. horti monsp. 123. 1813
Verified:
06/10/1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
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Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishearly medick  1Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
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