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Taxon: Lupinus angustifolius L.

Genus: Lupinus
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Genisteae. Also placed in: Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 22805
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:721. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 08-May-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-Apr-2000
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 196 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • blue lupine   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • European blue lupine   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • narrow-leaf lupin   (Source: Lupins Crop Pl ) – English
  • sweet lupinseed   (Source: Lupins Crop Pl ) – English
  • lupin petit bleu   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • blaue Lupine   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • tremoceiro-azul   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • altramuz azul   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

  • Environmental: soil improver   (fide Cover Crop Database)
  • Human food: pulse   (fide Lupins as Crop Plants 353-384, 449-450. 1998)
  • Animal food: fodder; forage   (fide Leg WorldEc)
  • Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kellerman et al.)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Morocco
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Cyprus; Israel; Lebanon; Syria [w.]; Turkey
  • EUROPE
    Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia [natzd.?]; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
    Southwestern Europe: France [s. & Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated

References:

  • Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
  • Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
  • Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
  • Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators. (NRCS Cons Pl Mat)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Gladstones, J. S. 1974. Lupins of the Mediterranean region and Africa. Techn. Bull. Dept. Agric. Western Australia 26:9.
  • 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. (Lupins Crop Pl) 11.
  • Jordanov, D. et al., eds. 1963–1982. Flora na narodna republika Balgarija. (F Bulg)
  • Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. (L US Can ed2)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
  • National Herbarium of New South Wales. 1961–1984. Flora of New South Wales. (F NSW) [cult. & natzd.].
  • Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia. (F Ital)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
  • Smythies, B. E. 1984–1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882. (L Spain)
  • Stepanova. 1973. Trudy Prikl. Bot. 51:37.
  • Stirton, C. H. 1988. Bothalia 18:27.
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database. (Cover Crop Database)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Lupinus angustifolius L.:

  • Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
  • ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • 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:

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  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?22805 (09 February 2010)

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