Details for: APG 84113, Medicago murex Willd., KEW 851578

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Medicago murex Willd.

Top Name:

KEW 851578

Origin:

Collected – Italy

Maintained:

Australian Pastures Genebank

Received by APG:

20 Jun 2017

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Seed

Backup Location:

Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Seed	100 count		BASE 84113 2018rsa1_____ SD

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Medicago murex Willd.

Top Name:

KEW 851578

Origin:

Collected – Italy

Maintained:

Australian Pastures Genebank

Received by APG:

20 Jun 2017

Improvement Status:

Wild material

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Collected

14 June 2015. Italy
Locality: La Custalia, Tempio Pausania
Coordinates: 40.8881, 9.0985 (Map it)
Landscape: Gently Rolling; Soil_Texture: Gravel; Notes: Clearing Roadside; Plants_Found_No: 50 - 100; Plants_Sampled_No: 50 - 100

Donated

Italy

Donator(s):

Universita degli Studi di Pavia Italy

20 June 2017.

Donator(s):

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Accession Names and Identifiers

KEW 851578

Type: Donor identifier

ALP 1.2

Type: Priority Score

Narrative

Native. Continuous distribution. Random sampling. Collected partially from ground. Fruits already dispersed. Vernacular name: Alfafa.

Group Note

Medicago murex Willd.

Genus:

Medicago

Section:

Spirocarpos

Subsection:

Pachyspireae

Family:

Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Trifolieae

Nomen number:

23626

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 3(2):1410. 1802

Comment:

may require conservation proposal to preserve usage

Verified:

01/31/1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Common names

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym

Medicago sphaerocarpos Bertol. var. inermis Guss.

Homotypic Synonym(s)

Medicago murex Willd. var. murex

Heterotypic Synonym(s)

Medicago murex Willd. f. sorrentini Urb.
Medicago murex Willd. f. sphaerocarpos (Bertol.) Urb.
Medicago murex Willd. var. inermis (Guss.) Urb.
Medicago sorrentini Tineo, nom. nud.

Annotations

Observations

Phenotype Data

Category	Descriptor	Description	Value	Study
GROWTH	Growth Habit	Visual assessment of habit (form) taken at flowering, (Jemalong Semi-erect)	P - Prostrate	APG SA Regen 2018 Medics
GROWTH	Seedling Vigour	Seedling vigour (at 2-3 trifoliate leaf stage). Subjective assessment relative to standard check cv Jemalong at 100 units	75	APG SA Regen 2018 Medics
GROWTH	Winter Vigour	Winter vigour (10 weeks). Subjective assessment relative to standard check cv Jemalong at 100 units	33	APG SA Regen 2018 Medics
GROWTH	Spring Vigour	Spring vigour (20 weeks). Subjective assessment relative to standard check cv Jemalong at 100 units	35	APG SA Regen 2018 Medics
MORPHOLOGY	Spines	Subjective assessment 1. relative to standard cv Jemalong at 10 units considering the interaction of spine length with angle of insertion to the pod whorl as it affects the level of vegetable fault in wool clips.	7	APG SA Regen 2018 Medics
MORPHOLOGY	Pod Coil	Direction of pod coil	A - Anti-Clockwise	APG SA Regen 2018 Medics