VICIA PANNONICA subsp. STRIATA

Family and Genus:- See- LEGUMINOSAE/Sect. VICIA

Common Names:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- Vicia purpurascens, Vicia ssp. purpurascens.

Meaning:- Vicia (L) Binder, to bind, a name used by the Roman naturalist and

philosopher Pliny for vetch.

Pannonica (L) From SW Hungary

Striata (L) Ridged, striped, with a rippled or lined surface

General description:- Suberect, sparingly branched ± appressed-pilose, annual.

Stem:-

1) 20-50 cm, sulcate.

Leaves:-

1) 5-10 paired, 8-30 x 2-7 mm,

2) Leaflets, usually oblong, truncate, apiculate, tendril simple or branched.

3) Stipules, small, ovate, acuminate, usually with a dark glandular patch.

Flowers:-

1) 1-3, nodding, short-pedi cellate in the axils of several of the upper leaves, forming

a ± unilateral inflorescence.

2) Calyx, narrowly campanulate, slightly gibbous, pilose:

a) teeth, linear-setaceous, somewhat unequal, the longest equalling or

exceeding tube.

3) Corolla, 15-22 mm, tawny mauve or dull purplish.

Fruit:-

1) Legume, nodding, oblong, densely appressed-pilose.

2) Seeds, 3-6, subglobose, smooth

Key features:-

1) Upper leaves, with a branched tendril.

2) Corolla, tawny mauve to dull purplish

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Habitat:- Usually a weed of cultivated and fallow fields, occasionally in semi-natural

meadows and open woodland. 0-600 (-1i00) m.

Distribution:- Throughout Greece, but rare in the west and lacking on the Ionian

Islands - Widespread in Europe and SW Asia. First recorded from Crete by Wilfried

Kaufmann on Gavdos in 2012. The first record from mainland Crete was by

Dimokratia Vrentzou from the area of Minoa Pediados

Flowering time:- Apr to early-June.

Photos by:- Dimokratia Vrentzou