Pisum sativum information from NPGS/GRIN

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Taxon: Pisum sativum L.

Genus: Pisum
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Fabeae. Also placed in: Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 300472
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 2:727. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 06-Aug-1986 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 19-Apr-2000
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 4621 in National Plant Germplasm System.

Common names:

Abyssinian pea (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English [Pisum sativum subsp. abyssinicum]
Austrian winter pea (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. arvense]
edible-pod pea (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. macrocarpon]
field pea (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. arvense]
garden pea (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
green pea (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
pea (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
snow pea (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. macrocarpon]
sugar pea (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. macrocarpon]
Syrian fodder pea (Source: Pl Names ) – English [Pisum sativum subsp. elatius var. pumilio]
wild pea (Source: not available) – English [Pisum sativum subsp. elatius]
petit pois (Source: C. Feuillet, p.c.) – French [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
pois de champs (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. arvense]
pois de jardins (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
pois fourrager (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. arvense]
Felderbse (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. arvense]
Futtererbse (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. arvense]
Gartenerbse (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
Speiseerbse (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
endo (Source: Names Batra ) – Japanese Rōmaji [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
ervilha (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
arveja (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
guisante (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
guisante de campo (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish [Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. arvense]

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

Human food: pulse (fide L Edible Pl)
Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)

More:

View toxicology references for Pisum sativum from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

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

Distributional range:

Native:

AFRICA
Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
ASIA-TEMPERATE
Western Asia: Cyprus; Iran; Iraq [n.]; Israel; Lebanon; Syria [w.]; Turkey
Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
EUROPE
East Europe: Moldova; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Romania
Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain

Cultivated:

cultivated worldwide

References:

PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pisum sativum.

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

Synonyms:

Pisum abyssinicum A. Braun [≡ Pisum sativum subsp. abyssinicum]
(previously associated with 2 accessions)
Pisum abyssinicum var. vacilaianum [= Pisum sativum subsp. abyssinicum]
(previously associated with 1 accession)
Pisum arvense L. [≡ Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. arvense]
(previously associated with 111 accessions)
Pisum arvense var. hibernicum O. Schwarz [= Pisum sativum subsp. sativum]
Pisum arvense subsp. humile Holmboe [= Pisum sativum subsp. elatius var. pumilio]
Pisum arvense var. vernale [= Pisum sativum subsp. sativum]
Pisum commune Clavaud [= Pisum sativum subsp. sativum]
Pisum elatius Steven ex M. Bieb. [≡ Pisum sativum subsp. elatius var. elatius]
(previously associated with 30 accessions)
Pisum humile Boiss. & Noë [= Pisum sativum subsp. elatius var. pumilio]
(previously associated with 5 accessions)
Pisum jomardii Schrank [= Pisum sativum subsp. abyssinicum]
(previously associated with 4 accessions)
Pisum sativum subsp. commune (Clavaud) Govorov [= Pisum sativum subsp. sativum]
Pisum sativum subsp. hortense (Neilr.) Asch. & Graebn. [= Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
(previously associated with 11 accessions)
Pisum sativum var. hortense Neilr. [= Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
Pisum sativum subsp. humile (Holmboe) Greuter et al. [= Pisum sativum subsp. elatius var. pumilio]
(previously associated with 10 accessions)
Pisum sativum var. speciosum (Alef.) Makasheva [= Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
Pisum sativum subsp. syriacum A. Berger [= Pisum sativum subsp. elatius var. pumilio]
(previously associated with 7 accessions)
Pisum sativum var.-gr. axiphium Alef. [= Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. macrocarpon]
Pisum sativum var.-gr. medullare Alef. [= Pisum sativum subsp. sativum var. sativum]
Pisum syriacum (A. Berger) C. O. Lehm. [= Pisum sativum subsp. elatius var. pumilio]
(previously associated with 10 accessions)
Pisum transcaucasicum (Govorov) Stankov [≡ Pisum sativum subsp. transcaucasicum]

Check other databases for Pisum sativum L.:

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
Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
GRIN nodulation data

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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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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?300472 (09 February 2010)

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