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Taxon: Vicia ervilia (L.) Willd.

Genus: Vicia subgenus: Vicilla section: Ervilia
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Fabeae. Also placed in: Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 41481
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 3(2):1103. 1802
Name verified on: 29-Sep-1988 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 18-Aug-2004
Species priority site is: Western Regional PI Station (W6).
Accessions: 178 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.


Common names:

  • bitter vetch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  • ervil   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • alliez   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • ers   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • erse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • ervilière   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • pois de pigeon   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  • Linsenwicke   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • Steinlinse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  • ervilha-de-pombo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • gero   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • orobo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  • alacarceña   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  • yeros   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
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Economic importance:

  • Environmental: soil improver   (fide Leg WorldEc)
  • Animal food: fodder   (fide Leg WorldEc; Enneking 1995)
  • Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (to livestock fide Enneking 27. 1995)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
    Northern Africa: Algeria [introd.?]; Egypt [n.w.]; Libya [rare]
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq [n.]; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
    Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Dagestan, Krasnodar
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  • EUROPE
    Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sicily]
    Southwestern Europe: France; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]

References:

  • Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya. (F Libya)
  • Allkin, R. et al. 1986. Vicieae Database Project (Vicieae DP) 7:53.
  • 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)
  • Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2. (L Macar ed2)
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
  • Hermann, F. J. 1960. Vetches of the United States - native, naturalized and cultivated. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 168:9.
  • Izquierdo Z., I. et al., eds. 2004. Lista de especies silvestres de Canarias: hongos, plantas y animales terrestres. (L Canaries)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Meikle, R. D. 1977–1985. Flora of Cyprus. (F Cyprus)
  • Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie. (F Liban)
  • 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)
  • Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie. (F Alger)
  • Raynaud, C. 1976. Bull. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V. 1:170.
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • 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)
  • Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2. (SF Egypt)
  • Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq. (F Iraq)
  • Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
  • Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia. (Leg NEurasia)
  • Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina. (F Palest)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Vicia ervilia (L.) Willd.:

  • 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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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?41481 (09 February 2010)

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