Taxon: Vicia benghalensis L.

Common names:

• Algerian vetch   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• purple vetch   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• vesce de Bengale   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• vesce pourpre foncé   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Purpurwicke   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• veccia del Bengala   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• veza purpúrea   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• purpurvicker   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (as green manure fide Leg ErWild; Cover Crop Database)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (to livestock fide Enneking 30. 1995)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Vicia benghalensis from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Morocco; Tunisia
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Azores

• also cultivated

References:

• 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 7:48.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Enneking, D. 1995. The toxicity of Vicia species and their utilization as grain legumes. 4.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• 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. [= V. atropurpurea].
• Hermann, F. J. 1960. Vetches of the United States - native, naturalized and cultivated. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 168:75.
• 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.
• Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2.
• 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).
• Pottier-Alapetite, G. 1979–1981. Flore de la Tunisie: Angiospermes-Dicotyledones.
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Raynaud, C. 1976. Bull. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V. 1:162.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Romero Zarco, C. 1998. Lectotipificación de Vicia amphicarpa L., V. benghalensis L. y V. sativa var. nigra L. (Leguminosae). Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 56:178–179.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Smythies, B. E. 1984–1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882.
• Sonnante, G. et al. 1997. Distribution of allozyme variation in Vicia benghalensis (Leguminosae) suggests the existence of two genepools. Pl. Syst. Evol. 207:99–110.
• 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).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Vicia benghalensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Vicia benghalensis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Vicia benghalensis.

Synonyms:

• (=) Vicia albicans Lowe
  
• (=) Vicia atropurpurea Desf.
  (previously associated with 18 accessions)
• (=) Vicia loweana Steud.
  
• (=) Vicia micrantha Lowe
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Vicia benghalensis L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• 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.

Images or nodulation data:

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

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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