Medicago biflora
Medicago biflora
İkiz yonca
Densely furnished with spreading glandular and eglandular hairs, branched from base, stems prostrate or ascending-erect, 5-35 cm. Stipules ovate to lanceolate-acuminate, entire. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, denticulate, emarginate or not, 7-10 x 3-5 mm. Peduncle 0,3-1 cm; awn 3-8 mm. Flowers 1-3, umbellate. Calyx campanulate, 5-6 mm; teeth linear-subulate, twice as long as tube. Corolla bright yellow, 5-8 mm. Fruits flat, semilunar, beaked, with concave upper suture, deflexed, transversely nerved, 15-20 x 8-12mm,7-10-seeded. Seeds ovate, wrinkled, 2,5 x 1,5mm FI. 4-7. Stony slopes,pine woods,fallow fields, vineyards, 300-1500 m.
Transcaucasia, N.W. Iran. Ir.-Tur. element.
