Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 777 (1753).

Synonymy: Medicago monspeliaca

Common name: None

Description:
Pubescent almost prostrate annual to 35 cm high; leaflets obovate, 5-13 x 4-10 mm, sharply denticulate at the summit; stipules dentate to incised.

Flowers subsessile, 4-18 in subumbellate axillary racemes; calyx c. 3 mm long, pubescent; teeth lanceolate-subulate, slightly longer than the tube; in fruit the axillant leaf deciduous and the pods appearing lateral (in S.Aust. material).

Pod 7-17 x 1-1.5 mm, pendent, linear, slightly curved upwards, pubescent, ribbed transversely with thick oblique veins; seeds rhomboid-ovate, c. 1.5 mm, brown, finely tuberculate.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NL, MU, YP, SL.   A Mediterranean species. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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