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Medicago minima (L.) Bartal.
Small Burr Medic

Reference
Cat.Piante Siena 60-61 (1776)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Alien to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Prostrate annual, herb, to 0.1 m high. Fl. yellow, Jul to Sep. Grey loamy sand, red-brown clay loam, granite, ironstone. Hills, valley slopes, rangelands, roadsides.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 17 August 2007

Scientific Description

Prostrate,spreading or scrambling, herb. Stems terete, not spiny, hairy; pustules or glands absent. Leaves or phylloclades clearly present, simple, alternate, not continuous with stem, 10-18 mm long, glabrous, flat with flat margins; margins entire, leaflets 3, pinnately arranged, terminal leaflet present, stalked. Stipules present and persistent to older leaves. Calyx with simple hairs (?). Corolla NaN (?) mm long, uniformly coloured, yellow. Stamens ten; anthers NaN (?) mm long. Ovary; style NaN (?) mm long. Fruit 5-6 mm long, stipitate, not constricted between the seeds, round in cross-section, hairy, with simple hairs, not beaked. Flowers in July, August and September. Occurs in the Eremaean and South-West Botanical Province, in the Yalgoo, Murchison, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Avon Wheatbelt, Mallee, Esperance and Swan Coastal Plain IBRA regions.

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 17 April 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Geraldton Sandplains, Mallee, Murchison, Nullarbor, Swan Coastal Plain, Yalgoo.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Murchison, Geraldton Hills, Katanning, Merredin, Nullarbor Plain, Perth, Recherche, Southern Cross, Tallering, Western Mallee, Western Murchison.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Bruce Rock, Canning, Coolgardie, Coorow, Dalwallinu, Dundas, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Greater Geraldton, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kellerberrin, Lake Grace, Menzies, Merredin, Mingenew, Moora, Mount Magnet, Mount Marshall, Narembeen, Nungarin, Perenjori, Perth, South Perth, Trayning, Westonia, Yalgoo, Yilgarn.