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Published In: Species Plantarum 2: 734. 1753. (1 May 1753) (Sp. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
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Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
General/Distribution: A genus with about 120 species, widely distributed, mostly in temperate regions of N.Hemisphere and S. America.

 

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Annual or perennial herb, mostly climbing by tendrils. Leaf mostly paripinnate, rachis ending in a tendril or bristle, rarely leaf imparipinnate. Leaflets mostly numerous, rarely 2-6, entire or toothed; stipules semisagittate, often toothed, stipels absent. Inflorescence axillary raceme or flowers solitary or few in leaf axil. Bracts small or deciduous, bracteoles absent. Calyx tube often oblique and asymmetrical, teeth subequal. Vexillum obovate or oblong, emarginate, tapering into a claw. Stamens monadelphous or diadelphous, 9+1, anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile or stipitate, 2-many ovuled, style terete or compressed, pubescent or pilose all round or on the lower side only or with apical tuft of hairs, rarely glabrous, stigma terminal. Fruit oblong to linear, compressed, 2-valved. Seed mostly globose, funicle dilated into a thin aril.
 

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1.Style conspicuously bearded on the lower side of the tip
2.Peduncle 7 mm or more
3.Stipule bi or trifid or dentate
Vicia monantha
3.Stipule with 6 or more teeth
Vicia bithynica
2.Peduncle less than 7 mm long
4.Fruit glabrous when mature
5.Inflorescence 1-2-flowered, calyx cup c. 2-less than 3 mm broad, (in pressed condition), leaflets generally more than 5 times as long as broad; all calyx teeth reach almost the same level
Vicia sativa
5.-Inflorescence 2-6-flowered, calyx cup more than 3-4 mm broad (in pressed condition), leaflets generally less than 5 times as long as broad, all calyx teeth do not reach the same level
Vicia sepium
4.Fruit pilose
6.Leaflets narrowly linear to oblanceolate, not more than 5 mm broad, retuse
Vicia peregrina
6.Leaflets not oblanceolate, broader than 5 mm, not retuse
7.Leaflets entire, glabrous, pod densely pilose, hairs not spreading
Vicia faba
7.Leaflets minutely dentate, pilose at the margin, pod tubercled pubescent at the margin to glabrescent
Vicia narbonensis
1.Style finely downy all round near the tip
8.Pod pilose
9.Pod 6-11 mm long (calyx almost as long as the keel)
Vicia hirsuta
9.Pod more than 1.5 cm long
10.Flower less than 2 cm (c. 1.2 cm), pod less than 2.5 cm (c. 2.3 cm)
Vicia villosa
10.Flower more than 2 cm (2.2-2.5 cm), pod more than 2.5 cm (3-4 cm) long
Vicia benthamiana
8.Pod glabrous
11.Inflorescence 1-3-flwered
12.flowers 10-15 mm long
Vicia monantha
12.Flowers 4-7 mm long
Vicia tetrasperma
11.Inflorescence more than 3-flowered
13.Leaflets oblong-linear, oblong-ovate to linear; at least 3, generally 5 times as long as broad
14.Lower 1 or 2 leaflets invariably arising very near the stipule
Vicia tenuifolia
14.Lower 1 or 2 leaflets not arising near the stipule
Vicia villosa
13.Leaflets elliptical, oblong-lanceolate to oblong-ovate, less than 3 times as long as broad
15.Lower teeth of the calyx c. 4-5 mm; corolla pale lilac
Vicia bakeri
15.Lower teeth of the calyx 1.5-2 mm; corolla whitish-cream turning orange or reddish
Vicia rigidula
 
 
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