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The genus Medicago is in the family Leguminosae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Medicago

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Medicago agropyretorum Vassilcz.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago alatavica Vassilcz.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago arabica (L.) Huds.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago arborea L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago archiducis-nicolai Sirj.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago arenicola (Huber-Mor.) E. Small	Accepted		TRO
Medicago astroites (Fisch. & C.A.Mey.) Trautv.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago biflora (Griseb.) E. Small	Accepted		TRO
Medicago blancheana Boiss.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago brachycarpa M.Bieb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago caerulea Less. ex Ledeb.	Accepted		TRO
Medicago cancellata M.Bieb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago carica (Huber-Mor.) E. Small	Accepted		TRO
Medicago carstiensis Wulfen	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago caucasica Vassilcz.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago constricta Durieu	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago coronata (L.) Bartal.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago crassipes (Boiss.) E.Small	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago cretacea M.Bieb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago cyrenaea Maire & Weiller	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago daghestanica Rupr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago difalcata Sinskaya	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago disciformis DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago doliata Carmign.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago edgeworthii Sirj.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago falcata L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago fischeriana (Ser.) Trautv.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago glomerata Balb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago granadensis Willd.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago grossheimii Vassilcz.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago gunibica Vassilcz.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago halophila (Boiss.) E. Small	Accepted		TRO
Medicago heldreichii E.Small	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago hemicoerulea Sinskaya	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago heyniana Greuter	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago hybrida (Pourr.) Trautv.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago hypogaea E.Small	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago intertexta (L.) Mill.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago isthmocarpa (Boiss. & Balansa) E. Small	Accepted		TRO
Medicago karatschaica (A.Heller) A.Heller	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago komarovii Vassilcz.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago laciniata (L.) Mill.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago lanigera C.Winkl. & B.Fedtsch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago laxispira Heyn	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago littoralis Loisel.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago lupulina L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago marina L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago medicaginoides (Retz.) E.Small	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago meyeri Gruner	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago minima (L.) L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago monantha (C.A.Mey.) Trautv.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago monspeliaca (L.) Trautv.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago murex Willd.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago muricoleptis Tineo	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago noeana Boiss.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago orbicularis (L.) Bartal.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago orthoceras (Kar. & Kir.) Trautv.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago ovalis (Boiss.) Sirj.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago pamphylica (Huber-Mor. & Sirj.) E. Small	Accepted		TRO
Medicago papillosa Boiss.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago persica (Boiss.) E.Small	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago phrygia (Boiss. & Balansa) E.Small	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago pironae Vis.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago platycarpa (L.) Trautv.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago polyceratia (L.) Trautv.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago polychroa Grossh.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago polymorpha L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago praecox DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago prostrata Jacq.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago radiata L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago retrorsa (Boiss.) E.Small	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago rhodopea Velen.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago rhytidiocarpa (Boiss. & Balansa) E. Small	Accepted		TRO
Medicago rigida (Boiss. & Balansa) E.Small	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago rigidula (L.) All.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago rostrata (Boiss. & Balansa) E. Small	Accepted		TRO
Medicago rotata Boiss.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago rugosa Desr.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago rupestris M.Bieb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago ruthenica (L.) Ledeb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago sativa L.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago sauvagei Negre	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago saxatilis M.Bieb.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago schischkinii Sumnev.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago scutellata (L.) Mill.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago secundiflora Durieu	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago sinskiae Uljanova	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago soleirolii Duby	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago strasseri Greuter & al.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago suffruticosa DC.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago talyschensis Latsch.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago tenoreana Ser.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago tornata (L.) Mill.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago transoxana Vassilcz.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago trautvetterii Sumnevicz, in Animadvers.	Accepted		TRO
Medicago truncatula Gaertn.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago tunetana (Murb.) A.W.Hill	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago turbinata (L.) All.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago vardanis Vassilcz.	Accepted		ILDIS
Medicago × varia Martyn	Accepted		TRO
Medicago virescens Grossh.	Accepted		ILDIS

Statistics

The Plant List includes 442 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Medicago. Of these 101 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 139 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Medicago. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 442 species names for the genus Medicago recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	101	22.9%
◕	Synonym	146	33.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	195	44.1%

All names

The status of the 581 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Medicago recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	123	21.2%
◕	Synonym	262	45.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	196	33.7%

Of these names,

• 8 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 5 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 442 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Medicago, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	88	121	0	0	209	47.3%
	Medium confidence	11	20	0	0	31	7.0%
	Low confidence	2	5	0	195	202	45.7%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Medicago, are as follows: