Taxon: Lupinus albus L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Lupinus albus var. albus (35 accessions)
• Lupinus albus var. graecus (3 accessions)

Common names:

• European white lupin   (Source: Lupins Crop Pl ) – English
  
• Mediterranean white lupin   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• white lupin   (Source: BSBI ) – English
  
• white lupine   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• lupin blanc   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• lupin blanc   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Lupinus albus var. albus]
  
• weiße Lupine   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• weiße Lupine   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Lupinus albus var. albus]
  
• lupino bianco   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• tremoçeiro-branco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• tremoçeiro-branco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese   [Lupinus albus var. albus]
  
• altramuz blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• altramuz blanco   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Lupinus albus var. albus]
  
• vitlupin   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Eur Gard F)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database)
  
• Human food: pulse   (fide Cornucopia; Lupins Crop Pl 452-453. 1998)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Leg NEurasia)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of tarwi   (based on hybrids with Lupinus mutabilis fide Proc 12th I Lupin C 139. 2008)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al.)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Lupinus albus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey [w.]
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]

• widely cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (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).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Berger, J. D. et al. 2008. Ecogeography of the Old World lupins: characterising the habitat range. Proc. Intern. Lupin Confer. 355–361.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
• Conterato, I. F. & M. T. Schifino-Wittmann. 2006. New chromosome numbers, meiotic behaviour and pollen fertility in American taxa of Lupinus (Leguminosae): contributions to taxonomic and evolutionary studies. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 150:229–240. [2n=50].
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Drummond, C. S. et al. 2012. Multiple continental radiations and correlates of diversification in Lupinus (Leguminosae): Testing for key innovation with incomplete taxon sampling. Syst. Biol. 61:443–460.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Gladstones, J. S. 1974. Lupins of the Mediterranean region and Africa. Techn. Bull. Dept. Agric. Western Australia 26:5.
• Gladstones, J. S. 1998. Distribution, origin, taxonomy, history and importance. In: Gladstones, J. S. et al., eds., Lupins as crop plants: biology, production and utilization. 10.
• Huyghe, C. 1997. White lupin (Lupinus albus L.). Field Crops Res. 53:147–160.
• Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. [introduced].
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Jordanov, D. et al., eds. 1963–1982. Flora na narodna republika Balgarija.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Kellerman, T. S. et al. 1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Sawicka-Sienkiewicz, E. et al. 2008. Difficulties with interspecific hybridisation in the genus Lupinus. Proc. Intern. Lupin Confer. 135–142.
• Sihna, A. & P. D. S. Caligari. 2005. Enhanced protoplast division by encapsulation droplets: An advance towards somatic hybridisation in recalcitrant white lupin. Ann. Appl. Biol. 146:441–448.
• Stepanova, S. I. 1973. K sistematike roda Lupinus L. (To the systematics of the genus Lupinus L.). Trudy Prikl. Bot. 51:38.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lupinus albus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lupinus albus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lupinus albus.

Synonyms:

• Lupinus graecus Boiss. & Spruner [≡ Lupinus albus var. graecus]
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• Lupinus termis Forssk. [= Lupinus albus var. albus]
  (previously associated with 10 accessions)

Check other web resources for Lupinus albus L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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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