Willdenow, C.L. (1802), Species Plantarum Edn. 4, 3(2): 1414 [nom. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europa australi."

replaced synonym: Medicago coronata Gaertn. nom. illeg.

Urban, I. (1872), Appendix. Index Seminum in Horto Botanici Berolinensi 3: 3 [basionym]

basionym of: Medicago hispida f. apiculata (Willd.) Urb. legitimate

Urban, I. (1873), Prodromus einer Monographie der Gattung Medicago L. Verhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins der Provinz Brandenburg und die angrenzenden Lander 15: 74 [basionym]

basionym of: Medicago hispida var. apiculata (Willd.) Urb. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 313 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Medicago hispida var. apiculata (Willd.) Urb. legitimate

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 459 [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Medicago hispida f. apiculata (Willd.) Urb. legitimate

Heyn, C.C. (1963), The Annual Species of Medicago. Scripta Hierosolymitana 12: 77 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Medicago polymorpha var. brevispina (Benth.) Heyn legitimate

Eichler, Hj. (1965), Supplement to J.M.Black's Flora of South Australia (Second Edition, 1943-1957): 189 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Medicago polymorpha var. brevispina (Benth.) Heyn legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 124 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Medicago polymorpha var. brevispina (Benth.) Heyn legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 281 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Medicago polymorpha var. brevispina (Benth.) Heyn legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Medicago polymorpha L. legitimate

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