Hudson, W. (1762), Flora Anglica Edn. 1: 288 [comb. et stat. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in pratis, pascuis, et inter segetes."

basionym: Medicago polymorpha var. arabica L. legitimate

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 314 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Medicago maculata Sibth. legitimate common name: Spotted Medic [n/a]

Gardner, C.A. (1925), List of the naturalised plants of extra-tropical Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 11(8): 75 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 459-460, Fig. 640 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Medicago maculata Sibth. legitimate common name: Spotted Medic [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 150 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Medicago maculata Willd. nom. illeg. common name: Spotted Medick [n/a]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 252 [secondary reference]

common name: Spotted Medic [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 223, Fig. 211B [secondary reference]

common name: Spotted Medic [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 154 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Medicago maculata Sibth. legitimate common name: Spotted Medick [n/a]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 401, 403, Fig. 51a [secondary reference]

common name: Spotted-leaf Medic [n/a] common name: Spotted Medic [n/a]

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

taxonomic synonym: Medicago maculata Sibth. legitimate

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 281-282, Fig. 45G, 45J [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Medicago polymorpha var. arabica L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Medicago maculata Willd. nom. illeg. common name: Spotted Medic [n/a]

Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 97 [secondary reference]

Gray, M. & Michael, P.W. (1986), List of plants collected at the old Flemington Saleyards, Sydney, New South Wales. Plant Protection Quarterly 1(4): 139 [secondary reference]

common name: Spotted medic [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R. in Marchant, N.G., Wheeler, J.R., Rye, B.L., Bennett, E.M., Lander, N.S. & Macfarlane, T.D. (1987), Papilionaceae. Flora of the Perth Region 1: 283 [secondary reference]

common name: Spotted Medic [n/a]

Weston, P.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Medicago. Flora of New South Wales 2: 455 [secondary reference]

common name: Spotted Burr Medic [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 728, Fig. 146i [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Medicago polymorpha var. arabica L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Medicago maculata Sibth. legitimate common name: Spotted Medic [n/a]

Weston, P.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Medicago. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 625 [secondary reference]

common name: Spotted Burr Medic [n/a]

Wheeler, J.R., Marchant, N.G. & Lewington, M. (2002), Dicotyledons. Flora of the South West 2: 766 [secondary reference]

common name: Spotted Medic [n/a]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Medicago polymorpha var. arabica L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Medicago maculata Sibth. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Medicago maculata Willd. nom. illeg.

• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (formerly naturalised), NSW (naturalised), LHI (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 45 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Medicago maculata Willd. nom. illeg.

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