Medicago arabica
Alfalfa
- Category
- plantae
- Primary role
- crop
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Fabales
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Genus
- Medicago
Plantae | Tracheophyta | Magnoliopsida | Fabales | Fabaceae | Medicago
External: GBIF #2965527
0 AI-consensus-verified claims .
No verified claims involving this entity yet.
Genus-level evidence
2 claims where the source named the organism only at the genus or collective level (e.g. Medicago sp.) and did not determine the species. Listed separately because they apply to the genus, not specifically to Medicago arabica.
- mutualism · Glomus versiforme → Medicago spp. · effect: beneficial
“confirmed by Harrison and Dixon (1994) for G. versiforme colonizing Medicago”
- mutualism · Glomus mosseae → Medicago spp. · effect: beneficial
“Glomus mosseae, when coinoculated with other fungi, was the best competitor, occupying around 75%”
Aggregated via GloBI — not independently verified by AgroEco.
herbivory 1
- GloBI eats Medicago arabica https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7006974
pathogen pressure 7
- GloBI hasHost Medicago arabica https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=11623633
- GloBI hasHost Medicago arabica https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=11624959
- GloBI hasHost Medicago arabica https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1342215
- GloBI hasHost Medicago arabica https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1264225
- GloBI parasiteOf Medicago arabica Vanderweyen, A., & Fraiture, A. (2009). Catalogue des Uredinales de Belgique, 1re partie, Chaconiaceae, Coleosporiaceae, Cronartiaceae, Melampsoraceae, Phragmidiaceae, Pucciniastraceae, Raveneliaceae et Uropyxidaceae. Lejeunia, Revue de Botanique|Vanderweyen, A., & Fraiture, A. (2009). Catalogue des Uredinales de Belgique, 2ème partie, Pucciniaceae (sauf Puccinia)(suite 2). Lejeunia, Revue de Botanique.|Vanderweyen, A., & Fraiture, A. (2012). CATALOGUE DES UREDINALES DE Belgique 3ème partie Pucciniaceae (genre Puccinia). Lejeunia, Revue de Botanique. Accessed at <https://github.com/jhpoelen/uredinales-belgium-checklist/archive/4d452ac12bf20a5d9a8ccd6a87e9fc7984a86bdb.zip> on 23 May 2026.
- GloBI hasHost Medicago arabica https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1598910
- GloBI hasHost Medicago arabica https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=11559607
pollination 4
- GloBI interactsWith Medicago arabica Tri-Trophic Thematic Collection Network, 2014 (and updates). Version: 2016-03-08. http://tcn.amnh.org/. National Science Foundation grant(s) EF#1115081, EF#1115103, EF#1115080, EF#1115144, EF#1115191, EF#1115104, EF#1115115
- GloBI pollinates Medicago arabica Westrich, P. (2023). Oligolektische Arten nach Pflanzenfamilien geordnet [Wildbienen: Grandiose Vielfalt]. https://www.wildbienen.info/bluetenbesuch/oligolektische_arten_nach_pflanzenfamilien.php
- GloBI visitsFlowersOf Medicago arabica https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/348193911
- GloBI interactsWith Medicago arabica Tri-Trophic Thematic Collection Network, 2014 (and updates). Version: 2016-03-08. http://tcn.amnh.org/. National Science Foundation grant(s) EF#1115081, EF#1115103, EF#1115080, EF#1115144, EF#1115191, EF#1115104, EF#1115115
crop interaction 12
- GloBI interactsWith Medicago arabica Tri-Trophic Thematic Collection Network, 2014 (and updates). Version: 2016-03-08. http://tcn.amnh.org/. National Science Foundation grant(s) EF#1115081, EF#1115103, EF#1115080, EF#1115144, EF#1115191, EF#1115104, EF#1115115
- GloBI hasHost Medicago arabica https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=11623633
- GloBI hasHost Medicago arabica https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=11624959
- GloBI hasHost Medicago arabica https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1342215
- GloBI hasHost Medicago arabica https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1264225
- GloBI eats Medicago arabica https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/7006974
- GloBI parasiteOf Medicago arabica Vanderweyen, A., & Fraiture, A. (2009). Catalogue des Uredinales de Belgique, 1re partie, Chaconiaceae, Coleosporiaceae, Cronartiaceae, Melampsoraceae, Phragmidiaceae, Pucciniastraceae, Raveneliaceae et Uropyxidaceae. Lejeunia, Revue de Botanique|Vanderweyen, A., & Fraiture, A. (2009). Catalogue des Uredinales de Belgique, 2ème partie, Pucciniaceae (sauf Puccinia)(suite 2). Lejeunia, Revue de Botanique.|Vanderweyen, A., & Fraiture, A. (2012). CATALOGUE DES UREDINALES DE Belgique 3ème partie Pucciniaceae (genre Puccinia). Lejeunia, Revue de Botanique. Accessed at <https://github.com/jhpoelen/uredinales-belgium-checklist/archive/4d452ac12bf20a5d9a8ccd6a87e9fc7984a86bdb.zip> on 23 May 2026.
- GloBI hasHost Medicago arabica https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1598910
- GloBI pollinates Medicago arabica Westrich, P. (2023). Oligolektische Arten nach Pflanzenfamilien geordnet [Wildbienen: Grandiose Vielfalt]. https://www.wildbienen.info/bluetenbesuch/oligolektische_arten_nach_pflanzenfamilien.php
- GloBI visitsFlowersOf Medicago arabica https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/348193911
- GloBI hasHost Medicago arabica https://mycoportal.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=11559607
- GloBI interactsWith Medicago arabica Tri-Trophic Thematic Collection Network, 2014 (and updates). Version: 2016-03-08. http://tcn.amnh.org/. National Science Foundation grant(s) EF#1115081, EF#1115103, EF#1115080, EF#1115144, EF#1115191, EF#1115104, EF#1115115