Vicia L.

Vetches (en), Vesce (fr), Vesce au sens large (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Fabales > Fabaceae

Characteristics

Annual or perennial herbs, mostly climbing by means of tendrils, less often straggling or suberect. Leaves mostly paripinnate, the rhachis terminating in a branched or simple tendril or bristle, or, rarely, some or all of the leaves imparipinnate; leaflets in mostly numerous, less often in 1–3, pairs, entire or toothed; stipules semisagittate, often fimbriate or toothed; stipels absent. Inflorescences axillary, racemose, or flowers sometimes solitary or few in the leaf-axils; bracts generally small and deciduous; bracteoles absent. Calyx 5-lobed; tube often oblique and asymmetrical; lobes subequal or the upper pair shorter and partly joined. Corolla small to medium-sized, often blue, purple or yellow; standard obovate or oblong, emarginate, tapering into a broad claw; wings obliquely obovate or oblong, usually but not always adherent to the keel. Vexillary stamen free or ± united with the tube; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile or stipitate, 2–many-ovuled; style terete or compressed, seldom flattened at the apex, pubescent or pilose all round or on lower side only or with an apical tuft of hairs, rarely glabrous; stigma terminal. Pods oblong to linear, compressed. Seeds globose or rarely compressed; funicle dilated into a thin aril.
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Herbs annual or perennial. Stem usually branched, erect, trailing, or climbing by means of tendrils, usually slender, wingless. Leaves paripinnate with rachis terminating in a tendril, bristle, or mucro, rarely imparipinnate with rachis terminating in a leaflet (Vicia subvillosa); stipules entire or toothed at margin; leaflets 1-13-paired, margin entire. Inflorescence a raceme, or flowers in axil­lary fascicles or solitary; bracts usually absent or caducous. Calyx ± campanulate, equally or unequally toothed, often hairy; teeth not leaflike, at least 2 teeth less than 2 × as long as tube. Corolla various shades of blue, purple, red, yellow, or white; standard with a proximal claw and distal limb, apex retuse. Stamens diadelphous; staminal tube oblique at apex; filaments filiform. Ovary stalked or subsessile; ovules 2-8; style terete, hairy all round distal part, hairy on lower side, or glabrous. Legume usually compressed, dehis­cent along sutures. Seeds 2-8, globose, oblate, or oblong; hilum often elongate.
Cal regular or irregular, often gibbous; standard with a broad claw overlapping the wings, its blade obovate to subrotund; wings oblong or narrowly obovate, adherent to and usually surpassing the keel; stamens 10, diadelphous, the tube ending obliquely; style pubescent all around at the summit, or sometimes on the outer (abaxial) side only, otherwise glabrous; fr flat to terete, dehiscent, in some spp. transversely septate; seeds 2–many; herbs with usually small stipules and once-pinnate lvs, the terminal lfl generally represented by a tendril; stem never winged; fls in axillary racemes or few-fld axillary clusters. 140, widespread.
Annual or perennial, erect or scrambling herbs; stems angled but not winged. Lvs pinnate, tendrilous or mucronate, very rarely with a terminal leaflet; leaflets usually pinnately veined, opposite or alternate, in 1-many pairs; stipules simple or toothed. Infl. axillary, racemose, 1-many-flowered. Calyx teeth 5, subequal or upper shorter, < 2× as long as tube. Staminal tube oblique at apex; stamens diadelphous. Style linear, not contorted, variously hairy; ovules numerous, rarely 2. Pod compressed, 2-valved; seeds globose or rarely compressed, with long or short hilum, smooth or rough.
Leaves usually paripinnate, the rhachis terminating in a tendril or bristle, rarely imparipinnate; leaflets often numerous, less often in 1–3 pairs, entire or toothed, folded flat lengthwise in bud; stipules usually small, semi-sagittate, often fimbriate or toothed, herbaceous; stipels absent.
Ovary stipitate or subsessile, 2–many-ovuled; style distally pubescent or pilose all round or on the lower side only, rarely glabrous; stigma terminal.
Corolla small to medium-sized, blue, mauve, purple, yellow or white; standard obovate or oblong, very often adhering to the keel; keel obtuse.
Flowers in axillary racemes or fascicles or solitary; bracts usually small, deciduous; bracteoles absent.
Calyx 5-lobed; tube often asymmetrical; lobes subequal or the upper two shorter and partly joined.
Annual or perennial herbs, mostly climbing by means of tendrils, less often straggling or erect.
Vexillary stamen free or ± united with the others; anthers uniform.
Pod oblong to linear, compressed, dehiscent.
Seeds globular or compressed.
Life form
Growth form herb
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Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Nitrogen fixer rhizobia
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Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

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Cultivation

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Germination duration (days) 21 - 40
Germination temperacture (C°) 18 - 21
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Images

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Distribution

Vicia world distribution map, present in China, New Zealand, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:330034-2
WFO ID wfo-4000040234
COL ID 86N6
BDTFX ID 83705
INPN ID 198902
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Synonyms

Bona Cujunia Wiggersia Ervum Abacosa Arachus Atossa Hypechusa Vicia Vicioides Ervilia Coppoleria Endiusa Faba Orobella Parallosa Rhynchium Swantia Vicilla

Lower taxons

Vicia acutifolia Vicia andicola Vicia leucophaea Vicia linearifolia Vicia menziesii Vicia minutiflora Vicia nana Vicia nigricans Vicia andina Vicia sessei Vicia johannis Vicia parviflora Vicia tenuissima Vicia amoena Vicia ludoviciana Vicia noeana Vicia palaestina Vicia aucheri Vicia variegata Vicia aucheri Vicia subrotunda Vicia semenovii Vicia semiglabra Vicia macrantha Vicia nipponica Vicia ohwiana Vicia popovii Vicia gracilior Vicia aphylla Vicia chaetocalyx Vicia kulingana Vicia lunata Vicia scandens Vicia sinaica Vicia perelegans Vicia filicaulis Vicia lilacina Vicia latibracteolata Vicia nummularia Vicia khokhriakovii Vicia giacominiana Vicia leucomalla Vicia monardi Vicia parvula Vicia nipponia Vicia chinensis Vicia kioshanica Vicia pallida Vicia ramuliflora Vicia ternata Vicia tetrantha Vicia tibetica Vicia unijuga Vicia janeae Vicia articulata Vicia benghalensis Vicia fairchildiana Vicia fulgens Vicia glauca Vicia hirsuta Vicia ochroleuca Vicia sativa Vicia argentea Vicia cracca Vicia melanops Vicia multicaulis Vicia oroboides Vicia pinetorum Vicia pisiformis Vicia sparsiflora Vicia lenticula Vicia incana Vicia sepium Vicia tenuifolia Vicia villosa Vicia ocalensis Vicia epetiolaris Vicia pampicola Vicia pulchella Vicia stenophylla Vicia graminea Vicia multijuga Vicia biebersteinii Vicia galeata Vicia galilaea Vicia sericocarpa Vicia koeieana Vicia rigidula Vicia singarensis Vicia pseudocassubica Vicia geminiflora Vicia hololasia Vicia iberica Vicia woroschilovii Vicia kokanica Vicia larissae Vicia davisii Vicia dichroantha Vicia freyniana Vicia glareosa Vicia hulensis Vicia bakeri Vicia crocea Vicia argaea Vicia montevidensis Vicia dionysiensis Vicia tenera Vicia orientalis Vicia olchonensis Vicia tetrasperma Vicia cretica Vicia dalmatica Vicia dennesiana Vicia serinica Vicia sibthorpii Vicia tephrosioides Vicia uralensis Vicia chosenensis Vicia erzurumica Vicia esdraclonensis Vicia capreolata Vicia costae Vicia ferreirensis Vicia pectinata Vicia quadrijuga Vicia sosnowskyi Vicia bungei Vicia longicuspis Vicia serratifolia Vicia loiseleurii Vicia cusnae Vicia laeta Vicia lens Vicia hatschbachii Vicia zabelii Vicia ramosissima Vicia jordanovii Vicia nataliae Vicia hassei Vicia lomensis Vicia ciceroidea Vicia floridana Vicia abbreviata Vicia balansae Vicia michauxii Vicia amurensis Vicia alpestris Vicia megalotropis Vicia cassia Vicia eristalioides Vicia mollis Vicia hyaeniscyamus Vicia kotschyana Vicia leucantha Vicia bijuga Vicia peruviana Vicia hyrcanica Vicia cypria Vicia anatolica Vicia cappadocica Vicia iranica Vicia splendens Vicia afghanica Vicia canescens Vicia chianschanensis Vicia kurdica Vicia garinensis Vicia aintabensis Vicia amoena Vicia araucana Vicia berteroana Vicia ciliaris Vicia inconspicua Vicia lanceolata Vicia laxiflora Vicia lunata Vicia modesta Vicia montbretii Vicia sessiliflora Vicia subserrata Vicia unijuga Vicia guyotii Vicia peruviana Vicia dadianorum Vicia eriocarpa Vicia semenowi Vicia anguste-pinnata Vicia crocea Vicia dumetorum Vicia bifoliolata Vicia cuspidata Vicia montenegrina Vicia heterophylla Vicia biebersteinii Vicia mollis Vicia mucronata Vicia olbiensis Vicia sicula Vicia coquimbensis Vicia micrantha Vicia vicioides Vicia aktoensis Vicia brulloi Vicia voggenreiteriana Vicia vulcanorum Vicia mulleriana Vicia magellanica Vicia gigantea Vicia caesarea Vicia cedretorum Vicia lecomtei Vicia paucifolia Vicia murbeckii Vicia nigricans Vicia pallida Vicia qatmensis Vicia basaltica Vicia taipaica Vicia costata Vicia venosa Vicia wushanica Vicia biennis Vicia raynaudii Vicia Vicia japonica Vicia tetrasperma Vicia ciliatula Vicia esdraelonensis Vicia setidens Vicia subvillosa Vicia tsydenii Vicia macrograminea Vicia humilis Vicia assyriaca Vicia venulosa Vicia armena Vicia tigridis Vicia setifolia Vicia aintabensis Vicia pseudo-orobus Vicia vicina Vicia kalakhensis Vicia fedtschenkoana Vicia bifolia Vicia fauriei Vicia ervilia Vicia pubescens Vicia cassubica Vicia orobus Vicia altissima Vicia lathyroides Vicia peregrina Vicia pannonica Vicia bithynica Vicia disperma Vicia caroliniana Vicia hybrida Vicia sylvatica Vicia grandiflora Vicia americana Vicia monantha Vicia narbonensis Vicia onobrychioides Vicia faba Vicia lutea Vicia pyrenaica