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Vicia sativa

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Name

Identification
Vicia sativa L. [family FABACEAE: FABOIDEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Vicia lathyroides
  • Vicia unrecorded
  • Vicia conspicua
  • Vicia pectinata
  • Vicia indet.
  • Vicia angustifolia
  • Vicia
  • Vicia maculata
  • Vicia consobrina
  • Vicia sativa
  • Vicia sessiliflora

Flora

Entry for VICIA sativa Linn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 1, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
VICIA sativa Linn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], Sp. 1037;—DC. Prod. 2, p. 61. E. & Z.! 1664. E. Mey. Comm. Drege, p. 126. E. Bot. tt. 334, 2614, 2708.
Information
leaves cirrhose; leaflets 6–12, the lower ones obovate or obcordate, the upper narrower and often linear, all mucronate, pubescent or subglabrous; stipules semisagittate, sharply toothed or laciniate; flowers solitary or in pairs, subsessile; calyx oblong-campanulate, its teeth subulate, equalling the tube; vexillum glabrous; legume linear, compressed, suberect, pubescent or rarely glabrous; seeds globose, smooth. A small, weak-growing biennial, varying in the breadth of the leaflets and in pubescence. Leaves subsessile; leaflets 1/2–1 inch long, 2–1 line wide. Flowers purple or blueish, or a reddish-lake, on peduncles 1 line long. Legumes 2 inches long, strongly compressed.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA A weed, in cultivated and waste ground, throughout the colony. (Herb. T.C.D., &c.)
Notes
This species is now naturalized throughout the temperate zones of both hemispheres.

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