Taxon: Vicia narbonensis L.

Common names:

• French vetch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• narbon-bean   (Source: GRACE 44:411. 1997) – English
  
• Narbonne vetch   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• vesce de Narbonne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• französische Wicke   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Mauswicke   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• ervilha-de-Narbona   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• gorošek narbonskij   (Source: F Armenia ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• alverjón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• haba loca   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• klotvicker   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: forage   (grazing fide Leg ErWild)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of faba bean   (based on aborted ovules after crossing with Vicia faba fide Euphytica 35:175. 1986)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Enneking 98. 1995)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria [n.]; Egypt; Morocco [n.]; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan [n.e.]; Cyprus; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Krasnodar
  Middle Asia: Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Hungary
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain

• naturalized elsewhere

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).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Allkin, R. et al. 1986. Vicieae Database Project 7:62.
• Bennett, S. J. & N. Maxted. 1997. An ecogeographic analysis of the Vicia narbonensis complex. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 44:411–428.
• Birch et al. 1985. Vicia johannis and wild relatives of the faba bean: a taxonomic study. Econ. Bot. 39:177–190.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• 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. 87–99.
• 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.
• Hermann, F. J. 1960. Vetches of the United States - native, naturalized and cultivated. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 168:31.
• Jahandiez, E. & R. Maire. 1931–1941. Catalogue des plantes du Maroc.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• 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.
• Raina, S. N. & Y. Ogihara. 1994. Chloroplast DNA diversity in Vicia faba and its close wild relatives: implications for reassessment. Theor. Appl. Genet. 88:261–266.
• Raynaud, C. 1976. Bull. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V. 1:155.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Roupakias, D. G. 1986. Interspecific hybridization between Vicia faba (L.) and Vicia narbonensis (L.): early pod growth and embryo-sac development. Euphytica 35:175–183.
• Smythies, B. E. 1984–1986. Flora of Spain and the Balearic Islands: checklist of vascular plants. Englera 3:1-882.
• Takhtajan, A. L., ed. 1954–1987. Flora Armenii.
• Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.
• van de Ven, W. T. G. et al. 1993. Taxonomic relationships between Vicia faba and its relatives based on nuclear and mitochondrial RFLPs and PCR analysis. Theor. Appl. Genet. 86:71–80.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Vicia narbonensis.

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

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Synonyms:

• (=) Vicia serratifolia f. integrifolia Beck
  (previously associated with 11 accessions)

Check other web resources for Vicia narbonensis 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
• 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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