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
  
• gesse commune   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – 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
  

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)
  
• 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.]
• EUROPE
  Europe [s. & c.]
• ALSO
  Asia [temperate]

• AFRICA
  Africa [n.]
• EUROPE
  Europe [s. & c.]
• ALSO
  Asia [temperate]

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Allkin, R. et al. 1986. Vicieae Database Project (Vicieae DP) 7:32.
• 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. (Prom Underused Crops) 18:1–92.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Graham, E. H. 1941. Legumes for erosion control and wildlife. USDA Misc. Publ. 412. (Leg ErWild)
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis. (F CAsia)
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. (Pl Book)
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 1:50.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2. (Mansfeld)
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Przybylska, J. et al. 1998. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 45:423–431.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505. (AH 505)
• Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223. (Leg Ethiop)
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
• Tsui Hung-pin. 1984. Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 4:60.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lathyrus sativus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lathyrus sativus. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Lathyrus sativus L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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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