Taxon: Medicago sativa L. nothosubsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang.

See other conspecific taxa:

• Medicago sativa (17 accessions)
• Medicago sativa subsp. caerulea (92 accessions)
• Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (453 accessions)
• Medicago sativa subsp. falcata var. falcata (no accessions)
• Medicago sativa subsp. falcata var. viscosa (15 accessions)
• Medicago sativa subsp. glomerata (11 accessions)
• Medicago sativa subsp. sativa (3367 accessions)
• Medicago sativa nothosubsp. tunetana (6 accessions)

Common names:

• bastard medic   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. ×varia]) – English
  
• sand lucerne   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. ×varia]) – English
  
• variegated alfalfa   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• variegated lucerne   (Source: Dict Rehm [as M. ×varia]) – English
  
• za jiao mu xu   (Source: F ChinaEng [as M. ×varia]) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• luzerne bigarrée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• luzerne intermédiaire   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Bastardluzerne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Sandluzerne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• luzerna-bastarda   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• alfalfa de las arenas   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• alfalfa híbrida   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (fide Food Feed Crops US, as "variegated alfalfa")
  
• Gene sources: cold tolerance for alfalfa   (fide Alfalfa, as M. varia, M. tianschanica)
  
• Gene sources: drought resistance for alfalfa   (fide Alfalfa, as M. varia, M. tianschanica)
  
• Gene sources: high yields for alfalfa   (fide Alfalfa, as M. varia, M. tianschanica)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of alfalfa   (fide Alfalfa Status Rep 21. 2000)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran [n.w.]; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Switzerland
  Southeastern Europe: Italy
  Southwestern Europe: Spain

• AFRICA
  Southern Africa: South Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India - Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir; Nepal; Pakistan
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Russian Federation - European part; Ukraine [incl. Krym]

• exact native range obscure

References:

• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Gunn, C. R. et al. 1978. Classification of Medicago sativa L. using legume characters and flower colors. Techn. Bull. U.S.D.A. 1574:12. [= M. sativa subsp. ×varia].
• Isely, D. 1983. Classification of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) and relatives. Iowa State J. Res. 57:217. [= M. sativa L.].
• Ivanov, A. I. 1980. Alfalfa [Lyutserna]. In Lenin Acad. Agric. Sciences, D. D. Brezhnev, ed. [= M. varia Martyn].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. [= M. ×varia].
• Small, E. 1985. Morphological differentiation in Medicago sativa s.l. in relation to ploidy. Canad. J. Bot. 63:1750. [= M. sativa subsp. ×varia].
• Small, E. 2012. Review of Fabaceae Trifolieae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm.
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia.

Synonyms:

• (=) Medicago falcata var. ambigua Trautv.
  
• (=) Medicago glutinosa subsp. praefalcata Sinskaya
  
• (=) Medicago hemicycla Grossh.
  (previously associated with 23 accessions)
• (=) Medicago komarovii Vassilcz.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Medicago media Pers.
  (previously associated with 14 accessions)
• (=) Medicago sativa subsp. ambigua (Trautv.) Tutin
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Medicago sativa nothosubsp. hemicycla (Grossh.) C. R. Gunn
  (previously associated with 62 accessions)
• (=) Medicago sativa subsp. praefalcata (Sinskaya) C. R. Gunn
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)
• (≡) Medicago sativa var. varia (Martyn) Urb.
  (previously associated with 50 accessions)
• (=) Medicago schischkinii Sumnev.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Medicago tianschanica Vassilcz.
  (previously associated with 11 accessions)
• (=) Medicago trautvetteri Sumnev.
  (previously associated with 43 accessions)
• (=) Medicago vardanis Vassilcz.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Medicago ×varia Martyn (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Medicago sativa L. nothosubsp. varia (Martyn) Arcang.:

• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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