Taxon: Vicia tetrasperma (L.) Schreb.

Common names:

• four-seed vetch   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• lentil tare   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• slender vetch   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• smooth tare   (Source: F BritStace ) – English
  
• smooth vetch   (Source: Enneking 1995) – English
  
• sparrow vetch   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• kasuma-gusa   (Source: F Okin ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• gorošek četyrechsemjannyj   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Transliterated Russian
  
• sparvvicker   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Animal food: fodder   (fide Enneking 1995)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Macaronesia: Portugal - Madeira Islands; Spain - Canary Islands
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Israel [rare]; Jordan; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar, North Ossetia, Stavropol
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Altay, Buryatia, Gorno-Altay, Kemerovo, Khakassia, Krasnoyarsk, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, Tuva, Tyumen
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Korea
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India [n.w.]; Pakistan [n.]
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Finland; Ireland; Norway; Sweden
  Middle Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Netherlands; Poland; Switzerland
  East Europe: Belarus; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania; Moldova; Russian Federation - Bashkortostan, Belgorod, Bryansk, Chuvashia, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kirov, Kostroma, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Mari-El, Mordvinia, Moscow, Novgorod, Orel, Orenburg, Penza, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tatarstan, Tula, Udmurtia, Ulyanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl; Ukraine [incl. Krym]
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Former Yugoslavia; Greece; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]; Malta; Romania
  Southwestern Europe: France [incl. Corsica]; Spain [incl. Baleares]

• widely 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 7:71.
• CIBA-GEIGY, Basel, Switzerland. 1974. The CIBA-GEIGY Weed Tables.
• 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. 4.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6.
• Hermann, F. J. 1960. Vetches of the United States - native, naturalized and cultivated. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 168:41.
• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
• Inst. Bot. V. L. Komarova, Acad. Sci. URSS. 1963–. Plantae asiae centralis.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• 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.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• 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. 1:169.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Silva, L. et al. 2005. Listagem da fauna e flora terrestres dos Açores. Lista des plantas vasculares (Pteridophyta e Spermatophyta).
• Stace, C. 1995. New flora of the British Isles.
• Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Yakovlev, G. P. et al. 1996. Legumes of Northern Eurasia.
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Vicia tetrasperma.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Vicia tetrasperma.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Ervum tetraspermum L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Vicia gemella Crantz
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Vicia tetrasperma (L.) Schreb.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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:

• 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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