Medicago truncatula (Barrel Medic)

Interesting Facts

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Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Barrel Medic, Barrel-Clover, Barrelclover, Mediterranean Medick, Strong-Spined Medick

Common Names in Finnish:

Palikkamailanen

Common Names in French:

Luzerne Tronquée

Common Names in Greek:

Varelloto Trifyli (Cyprus)

Common Names in Hebrew:

Aspeset Ketua

Common Names in Italian:

Medica Truncata

Common Names in Japanese:

Taru Umagoyashi

Common Names in Persian:

Nefala Halabiya

Common Names in Portuguese:

Luzerna Cortada

Common Names in Russian:

Liutserna Izlomannaia, Lyutzerna Slabousechennaya, Lyutzerna Usechennaya, Lyutzerna Yakortzevidnaya

Common Names in Slovenian:

Trnata Meteljka

Common Names in Spanish:

Melgó Truncat (Catalan), Trébol Barril, Trébol Barril (Uruguay)

Description

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Genus Medicago

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaf pinnately trifoliolate , leaflets toothed ; stipules adnate . Inflorescence a pedunculate axillary raceme . Flowers pedicellate and bracteate . Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla mostly yellow, or less often purplish. Keel shorter than the wings. Stamens diadelphous , 9+1, anthers uniform . Fruit spirally coiled or rarely falcate , sometimes provided with tubercles or spines at the margin , mostly indehiscent, 1-many seeded.

A genus, with about 50 species, most numerous round the Mediterranean, which is represented in Pakistan by 7 species only.[1]

Physical Description

Habit: Herb • Climbing: Not Climbing

Biology

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Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae () - Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae () - Cavalier-Smith, 1981
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta () - Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Euphyllophytina ()
        Class: Magnoliopsida () - Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
        Subclass: Rosidae () - Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Rosanae () - Takhtajan, 1967
        Order: Fabales () - Bromhead, 1838
        Family: Leguminosae () - A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons.
        Subfamily: Papilionoideae ()
        Tribe: Trifolieae ()
        Genus: Medicago () - C. Linnaeus, 1753 - [Greek rhakos, rag or remnant, and mitra, turban, alluding to calyptra frazzled or lobed at base]
        Specific epithet: truncatula - Gaertn.
        Botanical name: - Medicago truncatula Gaertn.

Synonyms

Medicago tentaculata Willd. • Medicago tribuloides Desr. • Medicago truncata Gaertn. • Medicago truncatula longiaculeata (Urb.)ponert • Medicago truncatula truncatula Gaertn. • Medicago uncinata Willd.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, Conservation Status: Not Threatened, Habit: Herb, Lifespan: Annual , Lifespan: Perennial

Last scrutiny: 2005-2006

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.