Details for: PI 143869, Medicago scutellata (L.) Mill., MSC-25


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Medicago scutellata (L.) Mill.
Top Name:
MSC-25
Origin:
Collected – Queensland, 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
FormQuantityNoteInventoryCart
Seed100 countPI 143869 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 scutellata (L.) Mill.
Top Name:
MSC-25
Origin:
Collected – Queensland, 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
Collected
PRE 20 March 1942.
Queensland, Australia
Comment: Originally from Lawes. Exact source and donor of seed unknown. Supplied to J.R.A. McMillan prior to 1942.
Donated
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
MSC-25
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.

68-409
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 scutellata (L.) Mill.
Genus:
Medicago
Section:
Spirocarpos
Subsection:
Rotatae
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Trifolieae
Nomen number:

23686
Place of publication:

Gard. dict. ed. 8: Medicago no. 2. 1768
Verified:
06/10/1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Medicago polymorpha L. var. scutellata L.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishsnail medic  1Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Englishsnail medick  1Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
Englishsnail trefoil  1Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Englishsnail-clover  1Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
GermanSchneckenklee  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Italianmedica scutellata  2International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Portugueseluzerna-escudelada  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedishsnäcklusern  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
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Phenotype Data

CategoryDescriptorDescriptionValueSample SizeStudyInventoryAvailability
MORPHOLOGYSeed weight 100Weight of 100 seeds in grams.2.04 MEDIC.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPISPI 143869 2008i SD