Medicago prostrata Jacq.

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Status: Accepted
Genus: Medicago L.
Tribe: Trifolieae
References: [454][754][1018][2016]

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Other names:

• Medicago declinata Kit. [Synonym] [454]
  

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Descriptors:

• Habit:
  • Herb
• Lifespan:
  • Perennial
• Stems:
  • Not climbing
• Source(s):
  • 1988(Europe)ESFEDS
  • 1993 Adams BR
  • 1993(Indian Ocean)Lock JM & Ireland H
  • 1995(Europe)Adams BR
• Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator:
  • 1991/1993 Heyn CC & Heller D
• Conservation Status:
  • Insufficiently known

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Geographical Distribution:

• Europe [454] [754] [1883] [2311]
  • Albania [454] [754]
  • Austria [754]
  • Czechoslovakia [754]
  • Greece [454] [2311]
  • Hungary [754]
  • Italy [454] [754] [1883]
  • Romania [754]
  • Yugoslavia [454] [754]

• Indian Ocean [3052]
  • Mauritius [3052]

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Notes:

• Med-Checklist distinguishes 3 subsp.:prostrata,pseudorupestris & vukovicii [454]
  
• Presence on Mauritius not confirmed by Polhill (1990). [1915]
  

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Last Update: 14/06/2001 13:23:51