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Taxon:  Melilotus suaveolens Ledeb.



Summary
Genus:
Melilotus
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Trifolieae
Nomen number:
24019
Place of publication:
Index sem. hort. Dorpat., suppl. 2:5. 1824
Verified:
06/15/1987 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
20 (9  active, 8  available) in Australian Pastures Genebank.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Reference(s)
  1. Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
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  3. Duke, J. A. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. 1981
  4. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  5. Fu, Y. C. et al. Flora intramongolica. 1977-
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  8. Iwatsuki, K. et al. Flora of Japan. 1993-
  9. Kitagawa, M. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae. 1979
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  11. Kunkel, G. Plants for human consumption. 1984
  12. Ohwi, J. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). 1965
  13. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  14. Stevenson, G. A. 1969. An agronomic and taxonomic review of the genus Melilotus Mill. Canad. J. Pl. Sci. 49:9.
  15. Voronchikhin, V. V. & N. A. Basilevskaya. 1974. Opredelenie sornykh vidov roda Melilotus Adans. po plodam i semenam. (Identification of weed plants from the genus Melilotus Adans. with the help of their pods and seeds). Vestn. Moskovsk. Univ., Ser. 6, Biol. 29:32.
  16. Wilson, P. W. et al. 1937. Effect of species of host plant on nitrogen fixation in Melilotus. J. Agric. Res. 55(8):619-629.
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Common names
English
Daghestan sweet-clover –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaGuizhou 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaHebei 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaJilin 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaLiaoning 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaNei Monggol 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaXizang 
1NativeAsia-TemperateChinaChinaYunnan 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaJapanHonshu 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaJapanKyushu 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaJapanShikoku 
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaKorea  
1NativeAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaTaiwan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaKazakhstan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMiddle AsiaKyrgyzstan  
1NativeAsia-TemperateMongoliaMongolia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateRussian Far EastRussian FederationAmur 
1NativeAsia-TemperateRussian Far EastRussian FederationKhabarovsk 
1NativeAsia-TemperateRussian Far EastRussian FederationPrimorye 
1NativeAsia-TemperateRussian Far EastRussian FederationSakhalin 
1NativeAsia-TemperateSiberiaRussian Federation-Eastern SiberiaEastern Siberia 
1NativeAsia-TemperateSiberiaRussian Federation-Western SiberiaWestern Siberia 
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaLaos  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
Native
Asia-Temperate
  • CHINA: China [Guizhou, Hebei, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Xizang, Yunnan]
  • EASTERN ASIA: Korea, Japan [Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku], Taiwan
  • MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
  • MONGOLIA: Mongolia
  • RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Khabarovsk, Primorye, Amur, Sakhalin]
  • SIBERIA: Russian Federation-Western Siberia [Western Siberia], Russian Federation-Eastern Siberia [Eastern Siberia]
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India
  • INDO-CHINA: Laos, Vietnam
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://apg.pir.sa.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=24019. Accessed 18 July 2025.


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