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

basionym: Medicago apiculata Willd. legitimate

• Comment: As there is more than one rank cited, these names cannot automatically be accepted as varieties. Published as `β apiculata'). Urban refers to Ind. Hort. Berol. (1872) App. 3 (not seen).

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Medicago apiculata Willd. legitimate

Williamson, H.B. in Ewart, A.J. (1931), Leguminosae. Flora of Victoria: 655 [secondary reference]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 149 [secondary reference]

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

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

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

taxonomic synonym of: Medicago polymorpha L. legitimate

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