Medicago murex Willd.

Luzerne à fruits ronds (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Medicago

Characteristics

An annual hermaphrodite deciduous herb.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread epizoochory
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
Photosynthetic pathway c3

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Hardiness (USDA) 5-10

Usage

Uses animal food environmental use experimental purposes gene source poison vertebrate poison
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Medicago murex world distribution map, present in Cyprus, Algeria, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Malta, Portugal, Syrian Arab Republic, and Tunisia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:506297-1
WFO ID wfo-0000213458
COL ID 3YNMK
BDTFX ID 41361
INPN ID 107664
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Medicago murex Medicago lesinsii Medicago inermis Medicago juliae Medicago sorrentinii Medicago sorrentinoi Medicago heterocarpa Medicago murex subsp. sphaerocarpos Medicago muricula Medicago murex subsp. heterocarpa Medicago murex subsp. inermis Medicago murex var. breviseta Medicago murex var. brevispina Medicago murex var. inermis Medicago murex var. sorrentini Medicago sphaerocarpos var. ovalis Medicago tribuloides subsp. murex

Lower taxons

Medicago murex var. aculeata