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Melilotus albus Medik.

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Melilotus albus Medik., Vorles. Churpfälz. Phys.-Öcon. Ges. 2: 382 ( [1787])
Melilotus albus Medik.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Medik.
Medik.
1787
382
alba
Medikus published this name (as Melilotus alba) in 1787 and is therefore the correct author. Sometimes Desr. or Desr. in Lam. is used as the authority. This is not correct and is regarded as a nom. illeg. or a nom. superfl. Desrousseaux published this name in 1797 in Lamarck: Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique 4(1): 63–64. 1797. (9 Feb 1797). This was 10 years after Medikus. The Medikus name was overlooked and it only came to light recently that Medikus published the name prior to the mentioning of it in Lamarck. For many years Desr. in Lam. has been regarded as the correct authority.
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Melilotus albus Medik.
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Melilotus albus

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albus

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Melilotus albus Medik.

Erect annual or biennial up to 2.5 m high; stems almost glabrous or sparsely to moderately hairy in upper parts. Lvs almost glabrous but sparsely hairy when young; petioles c. 5-25 mm long; leaflets oblong- elliptic to obovate, obtuse to acute, mucronate, obtuse to cuneate at base, serrate, c. 10-30 mm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, entire. Racemes lax and slender, up to 25 cm long at fruiting; fls numerous. Peduncles > petioles. Calyx ± glabrous to sparsely hairy; calyx teeth = or < tube, narrowly triangular. Corolla white, 4-5 mm long; wings ± = keel. Pod glabrous, reticulately veined, 3-5 mm long, 1-2-seeded; seeds light brown, 2-3 mm long.

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Melilotus albus Medik.
Melilotus albus Medik.
Melilotus albus Medik.
Melilotus albus Medik.
Melilotus albus Medik.

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Melilotus albus Medik.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Melilotus albus Medik.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Melilotus albus Medik.
New Zealand
Otago Land District
Melilotus albus Medik.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Melilotus albus Medik.
United Kingdom

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editorial
ICBN Article 62: Note 1. Botanical tradition usually maintains the classical gender of a Greek or Latin word, when this was well established. Ex. 1. In accordance with botanical tradition, (...) Lotus L. and Melilotus Mill. must be treated as masculine.

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1 January 2000
12 August 2013
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