Taxon: Lathyrus sativus L.

Common names:

• chickling-pea   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• chickling-vetch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• dogtooth-pea   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• grass peavine   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• grass-pea   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Indian-pea   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• khesari   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• Riga-pea   (Source: Pl Book ) – English
  
• wedge peavine   (Source: Leg ErWild ) – English
  
• gelban   (Source: F Egypt ) – Arabic
  
• jia shan li dou   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• gesse commune   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• gesse cultivée   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• lentille d'Espagne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• pois carré   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Saatplatterbse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• chícharo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• chícharo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• plattvial   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: vegetable   (but a detoxifying method is needed fide Pl Res SEAs 1:50. 1989; Curr. Pl. Sci. Biotechnol. Agric. 19:144-155. 1996)
  
• Animal food: potential as forage   (fide Genet Res Crop Evol 45:423-431. 1998)
  
• Gene sources: potential gene source for pea   (fide Euphytica 137:353. 2004)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury; Cooper & Johnson ed2)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Lathyrus sativus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Africa [n.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part
  Europe [s. & c.]

• AFRICA
  Africa [n.]
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Uzbekistan
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India; Pakistan
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Russian Federation - European part
  Europe [s. & c.]

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds. Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Allkin, R. et al. 1986. Vicieae Database Project 7:32.
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt.
• Campbell, C. G. 1997. Grass pea. Lathyrus sativus L. In: International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI), Promoting the conservation and use of underutilized and neglected crops. 18:1–92.
• Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. 1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. [poisonous].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Demilly, D. et al. 2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412.
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. [poisonous].
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1:50.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Ochatt, S. J. et al. 2004. Overcoming hybridization barriers between pea and some of its wild relatives. Euphytica 137:353–359.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Przybylska, J. et al. 1998. Diversity of seed albumins in the grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.): an electrophoretic study. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 45:423–431.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sanjappa, M. 1992. Legumes of India.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tsui Hung-pin. 1984. Materiae ad floram Lathyrorum. Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 4:60.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Bioversity International. Global crop diversity trust (on-line resource).
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lathyrus sativus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lathyrus sativus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lathyrus sativus.

Check other web resources for Lathyrus sativus L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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