Medicago monantha(C.A.Mey.) Trautv.

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WFO wfo-0000185444 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Medicago monantha, photographed by Nasser Halaweh
fig. a Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / 2019-03-22 / obs. 33349013
Medicago monantha, photographed by Nasser Halaweh
fig. b Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33422697
Medicago monantha, photographed by Nasser Halaweh
fig. c Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 33422700

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Native range 19 botanical countries

Regions where Medicago monantha is native: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Lebanon-Syria, Mongolia, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang, East Himalaya, India, Pakistan, West Himalaya AfghanistanIranIraqKazakhstanKirgizstanLebanon-SyriaMongoliaPalestineSaudi ArabiaTadzhikistanTranscaucasusTürkiyeTurkmenistanUzbekistanXinjiangEast HimalayaIndiaPakistanWest Himalaya
Native distribution of Medicago monantha, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Afghanistan AFG ASIA-TEMPERATE
Iran IRN
Iraq IRQ
Kazakhstan KAZ
Kirgizstan KGZ
Lebanon-Syria LBS
Mongolia MON
Palestine PAL
Saudi Arabia SAU
Tadzhikistan TZK
Transcaucasus TCS
Türkiye TUR
Turkmenistan TKM
Uzbekistan UZB
Xinjiang CHX
East Himalaya EHM ASIA-TROPICAL
India IND
Pakistan PAK
West Himalaya WHM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 37 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Medicago dicarpa Trautv.
  • Medicago monantha subsp. incisa (Royle ex Benth.) Verloove & Lambinon
  • Medicago monantha subsp. noeana (Boiss.) Greuter & Burdet
  • Medicago psilocarpa Trautv.
  • Telis brahuica (Boiss.) Kuntze
  • Telis incisa (Royle ex Benth.) Kuntze
  • Telis monantha (C.A.Mey.) Kuntze
  • Telis noeana (Boiss.) Kuntze
  • Trigonella brahuica Boiss.
  • Trigonella dicarpa C.A.Mey. ex Boiss.
  • Trigonella geminiflora Boiss.
  • Trigonella geminiflora Bunge
  • Trigonella geminiflora var. curvata Širj. & Rech.f.
  • Trigonella gemmiflora Bunge
  • Trigonella hamaticarpa Hausskn. & Bornm. ex Širj.
  • Trigonella incisa Royle ex Benth.
  • Trigonella incisa f. multiflora Širj.
  • Trigonella incisa var. geminiflora (Bunge) Boiss.
  • Trigonella macroglochin Durieu
  • Trigonella monantha C.A.Mey.
  • Trigonella monantha f. integrata Godr. ex Thell.
  • Trigonella monantha f. pinnatifida Thell.
  • Trigonella monantha subsp. geminiflora (Bunge) Rech.f.
  • Trigonella monantha subsp. incisa (Royle ex Benth.) Elenevsky & Kupat.

and 13 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.