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Vicia bakeri Ali

Species

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae > Vicia

Characteristics

Herbs annual, (30-)60-80 cm tall. Stem puberulent, rarely villous. Leaves paripinnate, (5-)10-15 cm; stipules semitri­angular or triangular-hastate, 2-4(-10) × 6-10 mm, margin 3-or 4-toothed; leaflets (5-)7-11-paired, narrowly oblong to elliptic or obovate, (14-)16-25 × (4-)5-7 mm, membranous, abaxially hairy, rarely both surfaces villous, margin sometimes thickened, apex obtuse or truncate, mucronate; lateral veins dense, obvious; tendril branched. Raceme subequaling (rarely obviously longer than) leaf, (6-)10-14 cm, (8-)10-14-flow­ered. Calyx campanulate or obliquely so, unequally toothed. Corolla purple or light purple; standard oblong, 11-12 × 4-6 mm, subequaling wings and longer than keel. Ovary fusiform or nearly so; ovules 4(-6). Legume linear, 40-42 × 8-9 mm, glabrous. Seeds 3 or 4. Fl. Apr-Sep, fr. Jul-Sep.
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A shrub. It grows to 3 m high. The leaves have stalks. The leaves are divided into leaflets along the stalk. These end with a tendril. There are 14-23 leaflets. These are oblong. They are 7-25 mm long. The flowers are pale lilac. They droop. The fruit is a pod. It is 40 mm long and 8 mm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support climber free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 1.05 - 1.15
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Forests, bush woods, among shrubs, hill slopes, grasslands, roadsides; at elevations from 2,300-3.600 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. In Nepal they grow between 2500-3200 m altitude. In Sichuan and Yunnan.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

Usage

The tender fruits are boiled and pickled.
Uses medicinal
Edible fruits seeds
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Plants are grown from seed.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 21 - 40
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Vicia bakeri world distribution map, present in Albania, Austria, Belarus, Switzerland, Chile, China, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova (Republic of), Norway, Nepal, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Sweden, and Ukraine

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:524567-1
WFO ID wfo-0000191329
COL ID 5BCKK
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Vicia sylvatica Vicia bakeri Vicia longidentata
WorldFloraDB 2024