Medicago littoralis
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Family Fabaceae
Taxonomy: Medicago littoralis Rohde ex Loisel.
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), SA (naturalised)
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: SAH_2022 (3), SAH_2023 (14), WAH_2022_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 14 traits from 24 records in 5 datasets.
Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.
fruit morphology
- fruit_width (numerical): 4.75 mm (3.5-6 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 4.75 mm (3.5-6 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): legume (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 14 mm (8-20 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 10 mm (5-15 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_dentate (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- life_history (categorical): annual (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): herbaceous (3) [sources: SAH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
- stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
seed morphology
- seed_length (numerical): 3 mm (3-3 mm) [sources: SAH_2023]
- seed_shape (categorical): reniform (1) [sources: SAH_2023]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAH_2023 | 10 | 14 | S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/. |
| WAH_2022_2 | 4 | 4 | Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/. |
| SAH_2022 | 3 | 3 | S. H. of South Australia. eFlora of SA, Electronic Flora of South Australia. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/. |
| Wenk_2022 | 2 | 2 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022. |
| Wenk_2023 | 1 | 1 | E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023. |