Entry for MEDICAGO laciniata All. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
MEDICAGO laciniataAll. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Fl. Ped. n. 1159;—DC. Prod. 2, p. 180. E. & Z.! 1504. E. Mey. in Comm. Drege. p. 92.
Information
erect or diffuse; leaflets cuneate or linear, coarsely inciso-dentate, truncate, mucronulate; stipules incisodentate; peduncles 1–2 flowered, short; calyx-teeth short, acute, narrow; legumes bordered with a double row of subulate, hook-pointed prickles, thickened at the margin, with flat sides, and two or more times spirally twisted. Known by its deeply cut or laciniated leaflets, which are smaller and more rigid and narrower than in either of the preceding. The prickles on the legume are much shorter in Cape specimens than on our European examples in Herb. T.C.D.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Sandy ground, various parts of the colony, E. & Z. Drege! Greenpoint, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. D.)
