Medicago littoralis Loisel.

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Medicago littoralis Loisel.

Sparsely villous annual up to 40(-110) cm. Leaflets obovate or obcordate, cuneate, dentate towards the apex; stipules lanceolate, incise-dentate. Racemes 1- to 6-flowered. Corolla 5-6 mm. Legume 4-6 mm in diameter, in a spiral of 3-6 turns, discoid to cylindrical, glabrous, spiny or not; transverse veins nearly straight, scarcely anastomosing except near the submarginal vein; submarginal vein at first separated from the marginal vein by a shallow groove, becoming confluent with it and forming a keeled margin when fully ripe; spines varying from short and conical to half as long as the diameter of the legume, arising from the submarginal vein.

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Medicago littoralis

Medicago littoralis

Medicago littoralis