Fabaceae Lindl.
Medicago sativa L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 778 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in Hispaniae, Galliae apricis."
Mueller, F.J.H. von (20 October 1853), First general report of the Government Botanist on the vegetation of the colony. Victoria - Parliamentary Papers- Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly: 13 [secondary reference]
Bentham, G. (5 October 1864), Flora Australiensis 2: 186 BHL [secondary reference]
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1888), Plants, hitherto immigrated and naturalized in Victoria, with indications of their nativity and English popular names. Key to the System of Victorian Plants 1: 532 [secondary reference]
Hamilton, A.G. (1892), On the effect which settlement in Australia has produced upon indigenous vegetation. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 234 [secondary reference]
Rodway, L. (1903), The Tasmanian Flora: 40 BHL [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 121 [secondary reference]
common name: Lucern [n/a]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 133 [secondary reference]
common name: Lucerne [n/a]
Black, J.M. (1924), Casuarinaceae - Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia 2: 313 [secondary reference]
common name: Lucern [n/a]
Black, J.M. (January 1948), Casuarinaceae-Euphorbiaceae. Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 2: 458, Fig. 636 [secondary reference]
common name: Lucerne [n/a]
Curtis, W.M. (1956), The Student's Flora of Tasmania 1: 149 [secondary reference]
common name: Alfalfa [n/a] common name: Lucerne [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: 251 [secondary reference]
common name: Alfalfa [n/a] common name: Lucerne [n/a]
Burbidge, N.T. & Gray, M. (1970), Flora of the Australian Capital Territory: 223, Fig. 211D. [secondary reference]
common name: Lucerne [n/a]
Curtis, W.M. & Morris, D.I. (1975), Angiospermae: Ranunculaceae to Myrtaceae. The Student's Flora of Tasmania Edn. 2, 1: 153 [secondary reference]
common name: Alfalfa [n/a] common name: Lucerne [n/a]
Crisp, M.D. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Papilionaceae (Fabaceae) - most genera. Flora of Central Australia: 174, Fig. 198E [secondary reference]
common name: lucerne [n/a] common name: alfalfa [n/a]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 404 [secondary reference]
common name: Alfalfa [n/a] common name: Lucerne [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: 280-281, Fig. 45B [secondary reference]
common name: Lucerne [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: Lucerne [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: Alfalfa [n/a] common name: Lucerne [n/a]
Weston, P.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1991), Medicago. Flora of New South Wales 2: 454 [secondary reference]
common name: Alfalfa [n/a] common name: Lucerne [n/a]
Weston, P.H. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002), Medicago. Flora of New South Wales Revised Edition 2: 623 [secondary reference]
common name: Alfalfa [n/a] common name: Lucerne [n/a]
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2011), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Medicago sativa L. f. sativa legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Medicago sativa L. var. sativa legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Medicago sativa L. subsp. sativa legitimate taxonomic synonym: Medicago falcata L. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Medicago caerulea Less. ex Ledeb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Medicago sativa subsp. falcata (L.) Arcang. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Medicago sativa subsp. caerulea (Less. ex Ledeb.) Schmalh. legitimate
  • APC Comment: Treated as Medicago sativa var. sativa in Qld. Medicago subsp. sativa and M. sativa subsp. falcata are recognised as distinct taxa in Tas.
  • APC Dist.: WA (naturalised), NT (naturalised), SA (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), NI (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)
Barrett, Russell & Tay, Eng Pin (2016), Perth Plants: a Field Guide to the Bushland and Coastal Flora of Kings Park and Bold Park Edn. 2: 306-307, photos 4-7 [secondary reference]
common name: Alfalfa [n/a]
de Salas, M.F. & Baker, M.L. (2016), Tasmanian vascular plant census. A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 46 [secondary reference]