Vascular Plants
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
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The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.
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
[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
[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]