Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Rosanae > Order Fabales > Family Fabaceae > Tribe Trifolieae > Genus Medicago

Medicago truncatula Gaertn.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Medicago*	L.	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Medicago truncata*	Gaertn.	orthographic variant
*Medicago tentaculata*	Willd.	synonym; nom. illeg.
*Medicago tribuloides*	Desr.	synonym
*Medicago truncatula subsp. longiaculeata*	(Urb.) Ponert	synonym
*Medicago truncatula subsp. truncatula*	Gaertn.	synonym
*Medicago truncatula var. truncatula*	Gaertn.	synonym
*Medicago uncinata*	Willd.	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Catalan: melgó truncat sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

English: Barrelclover; Mediterranean Medick; Strong-spined Medick sources: Terrell, E. E. - Checklist Of Names For 3, 000 Vas. Pl... Agric. Handbook No. 1977.;Haslam, S. M. Et al. - A Flora Of The Maltese Islands 1977.;Stace, C. - New Flora Of The British Isles. Cambridge Univ. Press 1991.

Portuguese: luzerna cortada sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).

Russian: Lyutzerna Slabousechennaya; Lyutzerna Usechennaya; Lyutzerna Yakortzevidnaya sources: Vassilczenko, I. T. - In: Flora Partis Europaeae URSS, Vol. 6. Leningrad. (Rus) 1987.;Khassanov, O. Kh. - Dikorastushchie Lyutserny Srednei Asii. Tashkent. (Rus) 1972.;Grossheim, A. A. - In: Flora URSS Vol. 11. Mosqua, Leningrad. (Rus) 1941.