| |
|
 | |
| MaltaWildPlants.com by Stephen Mifsud |
|
| |
|
|
 |  |  |  |
| External Links: |
|
Medicago rigidula (Field Medick) |
Medicago rigidula (FABACEAE.)
Images for this profile are taken from the Maltese Islands at or after year 2000. |
|
| Nomenclature and Basic Information |
Species name : |
Medicago rigidula (L.) Allioni
Published in (L.) All., Fl. Pedem. 1: 316 (1785) | Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.) |
|
Plant Family : | Fabaceae
Lindl. (=Leguminosae) (The Pea Family)
106 species from the Fabaceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands. | English name(s) : | Field Medick | Maltese name(s) : | Nefel | Status for Malta : | Indigenous. Present on the Maltese islands before man | Frequency : | Very Common Common Frequent
Scarce Rare
Very Rare Extinct
| Growth form : |
Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: THEROPHYTE (annuals)
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon | Legal Protection [link]: | Not Protected by Law (LN200/2011 or LN311/2006) | Red List (1989) : | Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands | Flowering Time : | Mar-May | Colour of Flowers: | Yellow |
|
| Species Description and Distribution |
Habitat in Europe: |
Data will be available in the next update of this website. |
Preferred habitat in Malta: |
Data will be available in the next update of this website. |
Botanical Description: |
Same as Medicago truncatula but corolla 6-7 mm; legume in a spiral of 4-7 turns, discoid to cylindrical, nearly always densely glandular-pubescent, rarely glabrescent, nearly always spiny; transverse veins strongly curved, scarcely anastomosing; submarginal veins at first separated from the marginal vein by a shallow groove, becoming confluent with it and forming a convex margin when fully ripe; spines usually about half as long as the diameter of the legume, somewhat curved, uncinate. |
Chromosome number: |
2n=14, 16 |
Distributional range: |
S. Europe. |
Distributional map in Europe
and the Mediterranean region (2018):
|
 |
Occurrences in Europe.
(from Flora Europaea pre year 1993): |
Albania, the Balaeric Islands, Bulgaria, Corse, Crete, France (incl. Monaco and Channel Islands but excluding Corse), Greece, Spain (incl. Andorra but excl. the Balaerics), Italy (excl. Sicily and Sardignia), ex-Jugoslavia, Portugal, Romania, Russia and former USSR, W E Sardinia, Sicily and/or Malta, Doubtful in Turkey (European part), Introduced in Czeck Republic and Slovakia, Hungary |
Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) -
Country codes |
Ab(A N) AE(G) Ag Al Ar Bl Bu Co Cr Cy Eg Ga(F) Gg(G) Gr Hs(S) Ir It Jo Ju Le Lu Ma Mo Rf(A C CS E K N NW S) Rm Sa Si(M S) Sy Tn Tu(A E) Uk(K U) [Cz Hu] |
|
| Images (0 images) | |
No images of Medicago rigidula are available. If you can share your own images of this species to this website, please do so by using the image upload form below. Credits are given to the authors.
|
|
|
|
| Submit further info on this species |
|
Use this form to submit more information on this species or report mistakes in this webpage. If information supplied is taken from a book, journal or website, please provide the corresponding reference or website address. Your email address is only for internal communication. Please report only Maltese locations for plants that indicated as rare or very rare (refer to the Nomenclature section). Please do report mistakes, broken links, technical errors, silly typing / grammar errors, misidentifications or taxonomical updates; this will help to improve the website's accuracy. Thanks you! Fill any of the three sections (A/B/C) below and kindly submit the form. * = required fields.
|
|
|
|
| |
