Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 779 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Habitat in Europae pratis. ♂"

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common name: Black medic [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 313, Fig. 141C [secondary reference]

common name: Black Medic [n/a]

Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 458, Fig. 635C [secondary reference]

common name: Black Medic [n/a]

Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 148 [secondary reference]

common name: Black Medick [n/a]

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common name: Black Medic [n/a]

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common name: Black Medic [n/a]

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common name: Black 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. 51c [secondary reference]

common name: Hop Clover [n/a] common name: Hop Medick [n/a] common name: Nonesuch [n/a] common name: Black-seed [n/a] common name: Yellow Trefoil [n/a] common name: Black Medic [n/a]

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Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1984), Fabaceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 1: 280-281, Fig. 45A [secondary reference]

common name: Black Medic [n/a]

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

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common name: Black 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: 284 [secondary reference]

common name: Black Medic [n/a]

Weston, P.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Medicago. Flora of New South Wales 2: 453 [secondary reference]

common name: Black Medic [n/a]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 191 [secondary reference]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 723, Fig. 146f [secondary reference]

common name: Black Medic [n/a]

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common name: Black Medic [n/a]

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

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common name: Black Medic [n/a]

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