Details for: PI 368970, Medicago italica (Mill.) Fiori, 'Tornafield'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Medicago italica (Mill.) Fiori
Cultivar:
'Tornafield'
Origin:
Donated – Australia
Received by NPGS:
27 Sep 1971
PI Assigned:
1972
Improvement Status:
Uncertain improvement status
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Availability
FormQuantityNoteInventoryCart
Seed100 countPI 368970 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 italica (Mill.) Fiori
Cultivar:
'Tornafield'
Origin:
Donated – Australia
Received by NPGS:
27 Sep 1971
PI Assigned:
1972
Improvement Status:
Uncertain improvement status
Reproductive Uniformity:

Population
Form Received:
Seed
Life Form:
Annual
Life Cycle:
Annual
Source History
Donated
NEAR 27 September 1971.
Australia
Comment: Seed grown at Plant Introduction Station, Kelmscott, Western Australia.
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
'Tornafield'
Type: Cultivar name

72-168
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 italica (Mill.) Fiori
Genus:
Medicago
Section:
Spirocarpos
Subsection:
Pachyspireae
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Trifolieae
Nomen number:

314582
Place of publication:

A. Fiori & G. Paoletti, Iconogr. fl. ital. ed. 2:237. 1921
Comment:
Fiori, in Nuov. fl. ital. 1:832. 1925, first united Medicago italica and M. tornata, two names of equal priority, choosing M. italica
Verified:
02/15/1989 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Medica italica Mill.

Autonym(s)
Medicago italica (Mill.) Fiori subsp. italica

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishdisc medic  1Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6 2:874.
Swedishskivlusern  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.0.49 MEDIC.SEEDWEIGHT.WRPISPI 368970 2008i SD