| Name | Medicago echinus de Candolle | 
| Authorship | de Candolle | 
| Rank | Species | 
| Placed in | Medicago | 
| Citation | 1805 Fl. Franc. (Lamarck). ed. 3, 4: 546 | 
| Holdings | 1 Specimen held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Medicago echinus de Candolle | 
| Identification made in | [no date] (1) |