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).