Flora of North America species comparison

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Medicago sect. Spirocarpos
Habit Herbs annual.
Legumes

coiled, dorsal suture prickly, tuberculate, or smooth, coils rarely paper-thin at dorsal suture.
Cotyledons

epulvinate.
Seeds

smooth;

radicle mostly 1/2(–2/3) seed length.

Medicago sect. Spirocarpos
Distribution
Europe; Asia; Africa [Introduced in North America; introduced also in South America, Pacific Islands (New Zealand), Australia]
Discussion

Species ca. 35 (9 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae > Medicago
Subordinate taxa
Name authority Seringe in A. P. de Candolle and A. L. P. P. de Candolle: Prodr. 2: 174. (1825)
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