We value your privacy

We use cookies and other technologies to enhance your experience, analyse site usage, help with reporting, and assist in other ways to improve the website. You can choose to allow cookies and other technologies or decline. Your choice will not affect site functionality.

Volume IV (1988) - Flora of New Zealand Naturalised Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Dicotyledons
Copy a link to this page Cite this record

Medicago scutellata

ζ*M. scutellata (L.) Miller

ζ*M. scutellata (L.) Miller ζ*, snail medick, is known from only one collection (CHR 92082, Swannanoa, Canterbury, Matson, 29.3.1956), a casual in garden. An annual herb. Leaflets 8-20 mm long, clothed in glandular hairs on lower surface. Fls yellow, 6-7 mm long, 1-3 per infl. Pod pelviform, coiled in 4-8 imbricate turns, 10-13 mm diam., distinctly reticulately veined but otherwise smooth. (Mediterranean, Asia Minor, 1957).

Click to go back to the top of the page
Top