Medicago brachycarpa
Medicago brachycarpa
Küme yonca
Villous, branched from base, stems prostrate to ascending or erect, 3-25 cm. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, entire or denticulate. Leaflets oblong to obovate-cuneate, rounded at tip, denticulate, 5-15 x 3-8 mm. Peduncle 0 mm. Flowers 10-16, umbellate. Calyx campanulate, 3 mm; teeth linear-subulate, 2 to 3 times as long as tube. Corolla yellow, 2,5-3 mm. Fruits flat, ± deflexed, half-ovate, transversely nerved, 1-2-seeded, with beak 4-6 x 3-5 mm; beak 1-1,25 mm. Seeds ovate, wrinkled, 2-2,5 x 1,5 mm. FI. 4-6. Limestone rocks, steppe, Pine woods, oak scrub, cultivated fields, 350-2100 m.
Lebanon, Transcaucasia. Ir.-Tur. element.
