Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part M) Author Jarvis, Charlie Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK text 2007 Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum London Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types 651 689 book chapter https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.291971 978-0-9506207-7-0 291971 Medicago polymorpha Linnaeus var. muricata Linnaeus , Species Plantarum 2 : 781. 1753 . RCN: 5720. Lectotype (Heyn in Bull. Res. Council Israel, Sect. D, Bot. 7: 168. 1959): [icon] "Medica cochleata dicarpos capsula spinosa rotunda minore, rarius spinis crassioribus & brevioribus armata" in Morison, Pl. Hist. Univ. 2: 153, s. 2, t. 15, f. 18. 1680. Current name: Medicago rigidula (L.) All. ( Fabaceae : Faboideae ).