Taxon: Melilotus indicus (L.) All.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Melilotus indicus var. indicus (no accessions)
• Melilotus indicus var. tommasinii (no accessions)

Common names:

• California lucerne   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Hexham-scent   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Hexham-scent melilot   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Indian sweet-clover   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• King Island melilot   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• King Island-clover   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• small melilot   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• sour-clover   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• handaquq   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• nafal   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• yin du cao mu xi   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• mélilot de l' Inde   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• mélilot des Indes   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• kleinblütiger Steinklee   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• senji   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – India
  
• meliloto a fioro piccolo   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• ko-shinagawa-hagi   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• trevo-de-cheiro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• dvärgsötväppling   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Bee plants: honey production   (fide Leg Queensl)
  
• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Leg ErWild)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Leg WorldEc; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al.; Cooper & Johnson ed2; Everist; Pammel)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Atlas WWeed; Invasive Pl Spec)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Melilotus indicus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain; Kuwait
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Azerbaijan; Russian Federation - Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China - Xizang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores, Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Southern Africa: South Africa
  Western Indian Ocean: Mauritius; Reunion
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
  United States
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  South America [s.]

• also cultivated

References:

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More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Melilotus indicus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Melilotus indicus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Melilotus indicus.

Synonyms:

• Melilotus parviflorus Desf. [= Melilotus indicus var. indicus]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Melilotus tommasinii Jord. [≡ Melilotus indicus var. tommasinii]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Trifolium indicum L. [≡ Melilotus indicus var. indicus]
  

Check other web resources for Melilotus indicus (L.) All.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• 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.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• 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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