Plant Details

Accepted name:: Medicago sativa subsp. sativa [Fabaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( High Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies of:: Medicago sativa L.
Infraspecies:: 2

Medicago sativa nothosubsp. faurei Maire

Medicago sativa subsp. glomerata (Balb.) Rouy

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
alfalfa	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
blaue luzerne	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
blålusern	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
lucerne	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
luzerna	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
luzerne	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
mielga	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
murasaki-umagoyashi	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
violet-flower lucerne	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
zi mu xu	Other	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:

Kew's taxonomic resources include 52 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Trigonella upendrae H.J.Chowdhery & R.R.Rao Bull. Bot. Surv. India 31: 156 (1989 publ. 1992).
Medica legitima Greene Man. Bot. San Francisco: 101 (1894).
Medica sativa f. alba Benke Amer. Midl. Naturalist 16: 424 (1935).
Medicago afghanica (Bordz.) Vassilcz. Bot. Zhurn. S.S.S.R. 31(3): 28 (1946).
Medicago angulata Láng ex Neilr. Aufz. Ungarn Slavon. Gefässpfl.: 331 (1865).
Medicago asiatica Sinskaya in N.I.Vavilov & al. (eds.), Fl. Cult. Pl. 13(1): 71 (1950), nom. superfl.
Medicago asiatica subsp. geratica Sinskaya Fl. Cult. Pl., SSSR 13(1): 82 (1950).
Medicago asiatica subsp. khivinica Sinskaya Fl. Cult. Pl., SSSR 13(1): 75 (1950).
Medicago asiatica subsp. sinensis Sinskaya Fl. Cult. Pl., SSSR 13(1): 82 (1950).
Medicago asiatica subsp. turcomanica (Bordakov) Sinskaya Fl. Cult. Pl., SSSR 13(1): 74 (1950).
Medicago asiatica subsp. turkestanica (Vilbouchevich) Sinskaya Fl. Cult. Pl., SSSR 13(1): 71 (1950).
Medicago contorta Gilib. Fl. Lit. Inch. 2: 94 (1782), opus utique oppr.
Medicago eusativa Sinskaya in N.I.Vavilov & al. (eds.), Fl. Cult. Pl. 13(1): 65 (1950), no Latin descr.
Medicago glutinosa var. panzeriana DC. Prodr. 2: 174 (1825).
Medicago jemenensis Sinskaya in N.I.Vavilov & al. (eds.), Fl. Cult. Pl. 13(1): 55 (1950), no Latin descr.
Medicago karatschaica Latsch. Zametki Sist. Geogr. Rast. 21: 29 (1959).
Medicago kopetdaghi Vassilcz. in B.K.Schischkin (ed.), Vol. Sci. Works Leningrad 1941-43: 101 (1946).
Medicago mesopotamica Vassilcz. Bot. Zhurn. S.S.S.R. 31(3): 27 (1946).
Medicago orientalis Vassilcz. Bot. Zhurn. S.S.S.R. 31(3): 28 (1946).
Medicago orientalis subsp. anatolica (Bordakov) Sinskaya Fl. Cult. Pl., SSSR 13(1): 64 (1950).
Medicago orientalis var. austroeuropaea Bordakov Trudy Prikl. Bot. 19: 8 (1929).
Medicago orientalis var. erecta Schweinf. Bull. Herb. Boissier 4(App. 2): 355 (1896).
Medicago orientalis subsp. graeca Sinskaya Fl. Cult. Pl., SSSR 13(1): 64 (1950).
Medicago polia (Brandegee) Vassilcz. Bot. Zhurn. S.S.S.R. 31(3): 27 (1946).
Medicago praesativa Sinskaya in N.I.Vavilov & al. (eds.), Fl. Cult. Pl. 13(1): 51 (1950), no Latin descr.
Medicago sativa grex afghanica Bordz. in N.I.Vavilov & Bukinich, Agr. Afghanist.: 352 (1929).
Medicago sativa f. alba Benke Amer. Midl. Naturalist 16: 424 (1935).
Medicago sativa var. anatolica Bordakov Trudy Prikl. Bot. 19: 8 (1929).
Medicago sativa grex euasiatica Sinskaya Phylogen. Taxon: 411 (1940).
Medicago sativa var. integrifoliola C.W.Chang Fl. Tsinling. 1(3): 444 (1981).
Medicago sativa subvar. kandagharokabulica Bordakov Armenian Agr.: 113 (1929).
Medicago sativa subsp. kandagharokabulica (Bordakov) Sinskaya Fl. Cult. Pl., SSSR 13(1): 79 (1950).
Medicago sativa subsp. macrocarpa Urb. Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 15(1): 56 (1873).
Medicago sativa subsp. microcarpa Urb. Verh. Bot. Vereins Prov. Brandenburg 15: 57 (1873).
Medicago sativa f. microphylla Pau Not. Bot. Fl. Españ. 4: 27 (1891), nom. nud.
Medicago sativa var. polia Brandegee Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 118: 23 (1907).
Medicago sativa grex praecocissima Sinskaya Phylogen. Taxon: 411 (1940).
Medicago sativa f. prolifera Dore Canad. Field-Naturalist 73: 150 (1959).
Medicago sativa subvar. provincialis Bordakov Trudy Prikl. Bot. 19: 113 (1929).
Medicago sativa f. salaverryensis J.F.Macbr. Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Bot. Ser. 8: 97 (1930).
Medicago sativa var. syriacopalestinica Bordakov Trudy Prikl. Bot. 19: 8 (1929).
Medicago sativa var. tripolitanica Bordakov Trudy Prikl. Bot. 19: 8 (1929).
Medicago sativa var. turcomanica Bordakov Armenian Agr.: 113 (1929).
Medicago sativa var. turkestanica Vilbouchevich Renseinements: 8 (1895).
Medicago sativa subvar. vavilovii Bordakov Armenian Agr.: 113 (1929).
Medicago sogdiana Vassilcz. Bot. Zhurn. S.S.S.R. 31(3): 24 (1946).
Medicago sogdiana var. chivensis Vassilcz. Trudy Bot. Inst. Akad. Nauk S.S.S.R., Ser. 1, Fl. Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 8: 92 (1949).
Medicago syriacopalestinica (Bordakov) Sinskaya in N.I.Vavilov & al. (eds.), Fl. Cult. Pl. 13(1): 61 (1950).
Medicago tadzhicorum Vassilcz. Novosti Sist. Vyssh. Rast. 18: 211 (1981).
Medicago transoxana Vassilcz. in B.K.Schischkin (ed.), Vol. Sci. Works Leningrad 1941-43: 101 (1946).
Medicago transoxana var. kopetdaghi (Vassilcz.) Khass. Dikorast. Iyutserny Sred. Assii: 34 (1972).
Medicago tripolitanica (Bordakov) Sinskaya in N.I.Vavilov & al. (eds.), Fl. Cult. Pl. 13(1): 59 (1950).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Medicago sativa L. subsp. sativa	GRIN Report: World Economic Pl. (Wiersema & León, 1999)
Trigonella upendrae H.J.Chowdhery & R.R.Rao	Indian Med. Pl. Database (TDU, 2020)

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