Bartalini, B. (1776), Catalogo delle piante ... alla citta' di Siena: 61 [comb. et stat. nov.]

• Type: (not cited).

basionym: Medicago polymorpha var. minima L. legitimate

Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 40 [secondary reference]

Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 121 [secondary reference]

common name: Little burr medic [n/a]

Sulman, F. (1913), A Popular Guide to the Wild Flowers of New South Wales 1: 128-129 [secondary reference]

common name: Little Burr Medick [n/a]

Black, J.M. (1916), Additions to the Flora of South Australia. No 9. Transactions and proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 40: 66 [secondary reference]

White, C.T. (1917), Queensland Agricultural Journal Series 2 8: 269 [secondary reference]

Ewart, A.J. (1921), Contributions to the Flora of Australia, No. 29. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 33: 229 [secondary reference]

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

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

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

common name: Little Burr 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: Burr Medic [n/a]

Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 224, Fig 211C. [secondary reference]

common name: Burr 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]

common name: Little Burr Medick [n/a]

Crisp, M.D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 174, Fig. 198D [secondary reference]

Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 402-403, Fig. 51d [secondary reference]

common name: Small Medic [n/a] common name: Kalgoorlie Clover [n/a] common name: Woolly Trefoil [n/a] common name: Woolly Burr [n/a] common name: Little Medic [n/a] common name: Little Burr Clover [n/a] common name: Goldfields Medic [n/a] common name: Small Woolly Burr Medic [n/a]

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

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

nomenclatural synonym: Medicago polymorpha var. minima L. legitimate common name: Woolly Burr Medic [n/a] common name: Small Burr Medic [n/a]

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

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: Small Burr Medic [n/a] common name: Woolly Burr Medic [n/a]

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

common name: Woolly Burr Medic [n/a]

Jeanes, J.A. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Fabaceae. Flora of Victoria 3: 727, Fig. 146b [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Medicago polymorpha var. minima L. legitimate common name: Little Medic [n/a]

Weston, P.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Medicago. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 624 [secondary reference]

common name: Woolly Burr Medic [n/a]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Medicago polymorpha var. minima L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Medicago minima L. nom. inval. nomenclatural synonym: Medicago minima (L.) L. ex Bartal. var. minima legitimate taxonomic synonym: Medicago minima var. brevispina Benth. nom. inval. taxonomic synonym: Medicago minima var. brachyodon Rchb. legitimate

• APC Comment: Treated as Medicago minima var. minima in SA and Qld.
• APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (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]

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