Medicago L.
Medicago minima (L.) BART. var. minima (L.) BART.
Ömür: Tek yıllık
Yapı: ot
Hayat formu:
İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 3
Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 5
Habitat: kayalık kireçtaşı yamaçlar, bozkır, kumullar, tarlalar
Minimum yükseklik: 0
Maksimum yükseklik: 1750
Endemik: -
Element: ?
Türkiye dağılımı: Türkiye
Genel dağılımı: Kuzey Hariç Avrupa, Asya, K. Afrika
Bulunduğu iller
Bulunduğu kareler : A1 A2 A4 A5 A6 A7 B3 B7 B8 B9 C1 C2 C3 C5 C6 C8

M. minima (L.) Bart., Cat. Piante Siena 61 (1776).
Annual, (5-)10-25(-30) cm, covered with simple hairs, with glandular hairs or with both. Stipules entire or minutely toothed. Leaflets 5-8(-12) x 2-7 mm, shortly obovate, rarely oblanceolate, retuse to emarginate, with a small terminal tooth. Peduncles with (2-)3-6(-8) crowded flowers, usually longer than petiole.
Flowers 2-4 mm. Calyx teeth unequal, about as long as tube. Corolla less than twice as long as calyx. Young fruit protruding sideways from the calyx. Fruit pubescent or glabrescent, discoid or cylindrical to ovoid, 3-5 mm high, spiny; coils 3-5, loose, thin, pergamentaceous, 2.5-4.5(-6) mm diam., last coil of pod smaller than first; surface of coils with 6-8 strongly curved unbranched radial veins running into a veinless submarginal border; spines varying from short tubercles to long, hooked spines, twice as long as the diam. of fruit, grooved nearly to tip; insertion of spines slightly removed from the marginal border, at 180º on middle coil and at c. 130° on the first and last coils. Fl. 3-5. Rocky limestone slopes, steppe, sand dunes, fields, etc. s.l.-1750 m.
1. Fruit discoid; spines hooked, longer than half the radius of the coils var. minima
1. Fruit ovoid; spines usually straight, less than half as long as the radius of the coils var. brevispina
var. minima. Figure 13, p. 493. Syn: M.polymorpha L.var. minima L., Sp. PL 780 (1753)! M. mollissima Roth, Cat. Bot. 3:74 (1806). Ic: Fiori, Ic. Fl. Ital. ed. 2: f. 1927 (1921). Heyn, op. cit. f. 16 & pl. 2E.
Lectotype (Heyn 1959): the illustration accompanying 'Medica echinata minima' J. Bauhin & Cherler, Hist. PL 2:386(1651).
Widespread, less common in the East. A1(E) Kirklareli: 2-4 ' km SSW of Iğneada, Bauer & Spitz. 231! A2(E) Istanbul: Kilios to Yerliköy, 7 vi 1894, Azn.! A2(A) Istanbul: Eyoub, 26 iv 1903, B. Post\ A4 Ankara: Hacikadin valley nr. Keçiören, 1200 m, D. 19050! A5 Çorum: Çorum to Merzifon, 900 m, Coode & Jones 1877! A6 Amasya: Erbaa, 30 m, Tobey 680! A7 Trabzon: Trapezunt (Trabzon), vii 1907, Hand.-Mazz.! Bl Izmir: Kemalpaşa, 6 vi l966, Alava & Regel! B2 Uşak: Dumlupinar to Banaz, 1000 m, Coode & Jones 2364! B3 Eskişehir: env. of Eskişehir, 16 vi 1962, M. & D. Zohary! B4 Ankara: valley nr. Ankara, 2 vi l933, Kotte! B7 Elaziğ: Kharput, Uelbe, Sint. 1889:573! B7/B8 Erzincan/Erzurum: Erzurum to Erzincan, 26 vi 1964, M. Zohary & Plitmann! B9 Bitlis: 9 km from Ahlat, 1750 m, D. 43334! C1 Aydin: Priene, 50-100 m, D. 40822! C2 Muğla: Soğüt to Bozburun, s.L-50 m, D. 41195! C3 Antalya: Bucak, 900 m, P. B. Smith 130! C5 Adana: nr. Tuzla, nr. s.1., Coode & Jones 328! C6 Hatay: nr. Dörtyol, nr. s.l., Coode & Jones 385! C8 Siirt: Botan Çay, 400 m, D. 43229! Is: Lesvos, Cand.; Kos, Asclepeion, D. 4048!
var. brevispina Benth. in Sowerby, Engl. Bot. Suppl. 1: t. 2635 (1831). Syn: M. minima var. brachyodon Reichb., Fl. Germ. Exs. 2:502 (1832)! M. pulchella Lowe in Trans. Cambr. Phil. Soc. 6, reimpt. 25 (1858)! M. sessilis Peyr. ex Post, Fl. Syria 10 (1896).
Type: Sowerby, Engl. Bot. Suppl. 1: t. 2635 (1831).
B3 Konya: Sultandagh nr. Ladik, vi 1953, Birand & M. Zohary 2227!
Distribution of species: Europe (except the North), Asia, N. Africa, Macaro-nesia & the Cape; adventive in America. Its present distribution apparently reflects its easy dispersal with wool. Var. brevispina is less frequent than var. minima, though nearly as widespread in its general distribution.