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Medicago arborea L.

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GENUS: Medicago L.

Medicago arborea L. [Preferred name]
    Medicago arborea ssp. citrina (Font Quer)O.Bolos & Vigo {Synonym}
    Medicago arborea var. citrina Font Quer {Synonym}
    Medicago arborescens C.Presl {Synonym}
    Medicago citrina (Font Quer)Greuter {Synonym}
    Rhodusia arborea (L.)Vassilcz. {Synonym}
    Trigonella arborea (L.)Vassilcz. {Synonym}

  
VERNACULAR NAME:
  Shrub Medick [2443]; Tree Medick [2080, 2086]

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION:
  Africa
Canary Is (U) [1869]; Ethiopia (I) [24]; South Africa (I) [279]
  Asia
China (I) [1179, 3443]
  Australasia
Australia (I) [1880]; Tasmania (I) [1880]
  Europe
Albania (N) [454, 754]; Balearic Is (N) [454, 754]; France (I) [454, 754]; Greece (N) [454, 754]; Italy (N) [454, 754, 1883]; Kriti (N) [454, 754, 2306]; Malta (I) [454, 2443]; Monaco (N) [2458]; Portugal (I) [454, 754]; Sardegna (U) [454]; Sicilia (I) [454]; Spain (N) [454, 754, 2363]
  Middle East
East Aegean Is(Greek) (N) [454]; Israel-Jordan (U) [454]; Turkey in Asia (N) [454]
  Pacific Ocean
New Zealand(North) (I) [2080]; New Zealand(South) (I) [2080]
  South America
Chile (U) [1444]

  
HABITATS:
  Africa
    Cultivated [24];

LITERATURE POINTERS:
  Description [24, 754, 1869, 2080, 2086, 3443] ; Illustration [1883, 2016]

DESCRIPTORS:
  Climbing: Not climbing ; Conservation Status: Not Threatened ; Habit: Shrub ; Lifespan: Perennial ; Scrutinised globally by taxonomic co-ordinator: 1991/1993 Heyn CC & Heller D, 2005-06 Roskov YR ; Source(s): 1988 (Africa) Lock JM, 1988 (Americas) Zarucchi JL, 1988 (Europe) ESFEDS, 1990 (New Zealand & Pacific) Horn P, 1993 Adams BR, 1995 (Europe) Adams BR, 2004-01 (Fl.Sinicae) Novoselova MS extract

  
USES:
  Environmental [1869, 2016]

  
NOTES:
  Used as a fodder plant since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. [2080]

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY:

4.

  Liberato, Maria Candida, 1973
    Flora de Sao Tome e Principe: Mimosaceae

24.

  Thulin, M., 1983
    Opera Botanica 68:1-223.Leguminosae of Ethiopia

279.

  Gibbs-Russell, E. et al., 1987
    List of South African Plants.Mem.Bot.Surv.S.Africa 48

454.

  Greuter, W. et al. (Eds.), 1989
    Med-Checklist Vol.4 (published)

754.

  Heywood, V.H. & Ball, P.W., 1968
    Leguminosae.In:Flora Europaea Vol.2.ed.Tutin,T.G.et al.

1179.

  Chen, Te-chao & Wu, Te-lin, 1986
    Typed Script(MO)130pp Enumeration Chinese Papilionoideae

1444.

  Marticorena, C. & Quezada, M., 1985
    Gayana,Bot.42: 1-157 Catalogo de la flora vascular de Chile

1869.

  Davis, P.H., 1970
    Flora of Turkey & the East Aegean Islands; Vol. 3.

1880.

  Hnatiuk, R.J., 1990
    Census Australian Vasc. Plants, Bureau Fl. & Fauna, Canberra

1883.

  Pignatti, S., 1982
    Flora Italica. Edagicole, Bologna.

2016.

  Small, E. & Jomphe, M., 1989
    A Synopsis of the genus Medicago. Can.J.Bot 67:3260-3294

2080.

  Webb, C.J. et al., 1988
    Flora of New Zealand Vol IV

2086.

  Horn, P.E. & Hill, G.D., 1987
    What Legume is That?

2306.

  Turland, N.J. et al., 1993
    Flora of the Cretan area

2363.

  Bolos, O.de & Vigo, J., 1984
    Flora dels Paisos Catalans Vol.1

2443.

  Haslam, S.M. et al., 1977
    A Flora of the Maltese Islands

2458.

  Rihan, J.R., 1988
    Survey of forage Medicago sp. in Med..ILDIS,Univ.Southampton

3443.

  Wei, Z. & Huang, Y.Z., 1998
    Galega &... In: Fl.Reip.Pop.Sinicae, 42(2) (Leguminosae 5)

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