Common name: Woolly Burr Medic
Medicago minima (L.) Bartal. APNI* 
Description: Prostrate to ascending annual, hairy; branches to 90 cm long.
Leaves 3-foliolate; leaflets obovate to obcordate; terminal leaflets 5–14 mm long, 3.5–8 mm wide, toothed towards apex, densely hairy when young, sometimes with darker flecks.
Inflorescences 1- or 2-flowered; peduncle shorter than to twice as long as subtending petiole. Calyx teeth slightly shorter to longer than tube. Corolla yellow; standard 3.5–5 mm long; keel ± equal to or longer than wings.
Pod discoid, 2.5–5 mm long, 3–5 mm diam., coils 3–5, radical veins 6–8 per coil; spines c. 8–16 in each row, to 4 mm long; seeds 3–7.
Distribution and occurrence: Native of Eur., W Asia.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *SC, *NT, *ST, *NWS, *CWS, *SWS, *NWP, *SWP, *NFWP, *SFWP
Other Australian states: *Qld *Vic. *W.A. *S.A. *N.T.
Text by P. H. Weston
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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