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Medicago arborea L.

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Medicago arborea L.
Medicago arborea L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Medicago arborea L.
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Medicago arborea

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arborea

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Medicago arborea L.

Erect, perennial shrub; stems densely sericeous. Lvs densely sericeous on petiole and undersurface of leaflets, almost glabrous above; petioles c. 5-25 mm long; leaflets obovate or obtriangular, acute or obtuse to slightly emarginate, usually mucronate, obtuse to cuneate at base, ± entire or irregularly serrate near apex, uniform in colour, c. 8-25 mm long; terminal petiolule (2)-3-6 mm long; lateral petiolules c. 1 mm long; stipules triangular, acuminate, entire. Infl. 4-10-(12)-flowered; peduncles densely sericeous, > petioles; pedicels > calyx tube. Calyx hairy; calyx teeth narrowly triangular, < or ± = tube. Corolla yellow to golden or orange, 10-15 mm long. Pod moderately hairy but becoming ± glabrous when mature, coiled in 1-11/2 turns with a hole through the centre, reticulately veined but otherwise smooth, 10-15 mm diam., few-seeded; seeds brown, c. 4-5 mm long.

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Medicago arborea L.
Medicago arborea L.

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Medicago arborea L.
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Medicago arborea L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Medicago arborea L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Medicago arborea L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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1 January 2000
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