Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Medicago rugosa

Fabaceae Lindl.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Fabales(ordo)
Fabaceae(fam.)
Medicago(gen.)
rugosa(sp.)

Medicago rugosa Desr.

, legitimate

, scientific

Desrousseaux, L.A.J. in Lamarck, J.-B.P.A. de M. de & Poiret, J.L.M. (1792), Luserne; Medicago.

Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique

:

632

[tax. nov.]

Type: "Cette plante croît naturellement daazns la Sicile. Ou la cultive au Jardin du Roi. ... (v.v.)."

McComb, J.A. (1974), Annual Medicago species with particular reference to those occurring in Western Australia.

Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia

:

92

BHL

[secondary reference]

Weber, J.Z. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Papilionoideae.

Flora of South Australia

:

644

[secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae.

Flora of Victoria

:

724, Fig. 146a

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Medicago elegans Jacq. ex Willd.

legitimate

common name:

Medic

[n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[secondary reference]

APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census

:

-

[pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Medicago italica (Mill.) Fiori legitimate by

Weber, J.Z. in Jessop, J.P. & Toelken, H.R. (ed.) (1986), Papilionoideae.

Flora of South Australia

Edn. 4, 2

: 644

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census

:

- APC

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Medicago elegans Jacq. ex Willd.

legitimate

APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), Vic (naturalised)