Taxon: Medicago truncatula Gaertn.

Common names:

• barrel medic   (Source: F Iraq ) – English
  
• barrel-clover   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• caltrop medic   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• cylindrical bur medic   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• strong-spine medick   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• luzerne tronquée   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• medica troncata   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• trébol barril   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• tornlusern   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Trop Leg; Cover Crop Database)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Leg Queensl)
  
• Gene sources: potential for disease resistance in alfalfa   (fide Agron Monog 29:119. 1988)
  
• Gene sources: research in plant biology   (fide Genet Research 89:108. 2009)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al.)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Can J Bot 67:3270. 1989)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Medicago truncatula from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey [w. & s.]
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia
  Middle Asia: Turkmenistan
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Argentina [c.]; Uruguay [s. & w.]

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Badri, M. et al. 2007. Quantitative and molecular genetic variation in sympatric populations of Medicago laciniata and M. truncatula (Fabaceae):relationships with eco-geographical factors. Genet. Res. 89:107–122.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Hacker, J. B. 1990. A guide to herbaceous and shrub legumes of Queensland.
• Heyn, C. C. 1963. The annual species of Medicago. Scripta Hierosolymitana 12:95.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. [= M. tribuloides Desr.].
• Lesins, K. A. & I. Lesins. 1979. Genus Medicago (Leguminosae). A taxogenetic study. 166.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Pottier-Alapetite, G. 1979–1981. Flore de la Tunisie: Angiospermes-Dicotyledones.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Quiros, C. F. & G. R. Bauchan. 1988. The genus Medicago and the origin of the Medicago sativa complex. In: American Society of Agronomy, Agronomy; a series of monographs. 29:93–124.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sales, F. & I. C. Hedge. 1994. Medicago L. (Leguminosae): typification and nomenclature. Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 51:323.
• Small, E. & M. Jomphe. 1989. A synopsis of the genus Medicago (Leguminosae). Canad. J. Bot. 32:3270.
• Small, E. et al. 1981. The taxonomic value of floral characters in tribe Trigonelleae (Leguminosae), with special reference to Medicago. Canad. J. Bot. 59:1581.
• Small, E. et al. 1991. Medicago truncatula f. laxicycla (Leguminosae), a new taxon with loose fruit coiling promoting rapid germination of the fruit-retained seeds. Pl. Syst. Evol. 174:37–46.
• Small, E. 1981. A numerical analysis of major groupings in Medicago employing traditionally used characters. Canad. J. Bot. 59:1555.
• Smythies, B. E. 1984–1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882.
• Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Medicago truncatula.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Medicago truncatula.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Medicago truncatula.

Synonyms:

• (=) Medicago tribuloides Desr.
  (previously associated with 48 accessions)
• (=) Medicago tribuloides var. breviaculeata Moris
  
• (=) Medicago truncatula var. breviaculeata (Moris) Urb.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Medicago truncatula var. longiaculeata Urb.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Medicago truncatula var. tribuloides (Desr.) Burnat
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (≡) Medicago truncatula f. tricycla Nègre (basionym)
  
• (=) Medicago truncatula var. tricycla (Nègre) Heyn
  (previously associated with 44 accessions)

Check other web resources for Medicago truncatula Gaertn.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

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

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• 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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