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Vicia angustifolia

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Name

Identification
Vicia angustifolia L. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by J. Müller (JE), Isotype of Vicia lusitanica Freyn [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
  • Vicia lathyroides
  • Vicia unrecorded
  • Vicia conspicua
  • Vicia lusitanica
  • Vicia angustifolia
  • Vicia sativa

Flora

Entry for Vicia sativa var. angustifolia L. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 7, (2003) Author: various authors
Names
Vicia sativa var. angustifolia L. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Fl. Suec., ed. 2: 255 (1755) in obs. —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 346 (1929). —Verdcourt in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 1069, fig. 153/13 (1971). —Troupin, Fl. Rwanda, Spermatophytes 2: 164, fig. 47/4 (1983). Type from Switzerland.
Vicia angustifolia L. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Amoen. Acad. 4: 105 (1759). Type from England.
Vicia sativa var. nigra L. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Sp. Pl., ed. 2: 1037 (1763). Type from Europe.
Vicia sativa subsp. nigra L. Ehrh. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Hannover. Mag. 1780 (15): 229 (1780). —Drummond in Kirkia 8: 228 (1972).
Vicia abyssinica Alef. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bonplandia 9: 72 (1861). Type from Ethiopia.
Vicia sativa var. abyssinica Alef. Baker [family LEGUMINOSAE], in F.T.A. 2: 172 (1871). —Robyns, Fl. Sperm. Parc Nat. Alb. 1: 334 (1948). —Boutique in F.C.B. 6: 80 (1954).
Information
Leaves 6–12-foliolate; leaflets 9–35 × 1–6 mm, linear, narrowly oblong or narrowly obovate, obtuse to emarginate but usually apiculate or shortly cuspidate at the apex, cuneate at the base. Calyx tube 3.5–5.5 mm long; lobes 2.5–4.5 mm long, always shorter than the tube. Standard 10–18 × 7–10 mm, obovate; wings c. 4 mm wide; keel obtuse, sometimes greenish-white. Style 1.5–2 mm long. Pod 25–40 × 4–6 mm, brownish-black, glabrous or subglabrous. Seeds 2.5–4 mm in diameter.
Habitat
cultivated or as an escape of cultivation, sometimes as a weed
Range
Widely distributed in Europe, northern, eastern and southern Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Altitude range
c. 1000–1430 m.
1430
1000
Distribution
Zimbabwe E Mutasa Distr., Imbeza Valley, 1097 m, fl. & fr. 14.ix.1956, Chase 6200 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Harare Distr., Spicers Farm, 4.8 km above Mukuvisi (Makabusi)–Manyame (Hunyani) confluence on Mukuvisi R., 1400 m, fr. 1.ix.1959, Phipps 2188 (BM; K; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Makonde Distr., fl. vi.1973, Nicholls in GHS 227143 (SRGH).
Notes
var. macrocarpa has been cultivated in Mozambique, see note above.

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