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Medicago ruthenica (alfalfa)

Synonyms:
Language: Mongolian; Russian

Attributes

Allergen Potential [1]  Low
Structure [2]  Herb

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Daurskiy Biosphere Reserve 562659 Russia  
Kedrovaya Pad Zapovednik Ia 44224 Primorsky Krai , Russia
Ussuriysky Zapovednik Ia 99910 Primorsky Krai , Russia

Predators

Bruchophagus gibbus[3]
Eriococcus cingulatus (Kiritchenko's felt scale)[4]
Pseudois nayaur (bharal)[5]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000)
♦ 2Kattge, J. et al. (2011b) TRY - a global database of plant traits Global Change Biology 17:2905-2935
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 4Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 5Food habits of blue sheep, Pseudois nayaur in the Helan Mountains, China, Zhensheng LIU, Xiaoming WANG, Liwei TENG and Lirong CAO, Folia Zool. – 56(1): 13–22 (2007)
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0