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Vicia cappadocica BOISS. ET BAL. |
Vicia cappadocica BOISS. ET BAL. |
Vicia L. |
| V.cappadocica Boiss. & Bal. in Boiss., Diagn. ser. 2(6):68 (1859). Syn: Ervum paucijugum Trautv. in Acta Horti Petrop. 3:76 (1875); Lathyrus trijugus Bornm. in Beih. Bot. Centr. 19(2) 250 (1910); L. paucijugus (Trautv.) Schischkin in Ber. Tomsker Staats-Univ. 81:488 (1928); Vicia paucijuga (Trautv.) B. Fedtsch. in Sborn. President. Akad. Nauk. Komarov, 745 (1939). Ic: Fl. URSS 13: t. 23 f. 2 (1948); Fl. Armenii 4: t. 72 (1962). Map 61, p. 297. Subglabrous, ascending annual. (10-)15-30(-40) cm. Leaflets 2-4(-5)-paired, 10-35x1-4 mm, those of lowest leaves cuneate-obovate, the rest spathulate-linear, obtuse to praemorse, apex denticulate; stipules 5-8 mm, semi-hastate and incised-dentate at apex; tendrils simple or branched. Peduncle as long or longer than the leaf, l(-2)-flowered. Flowers (10-)12-14(-15) mm, reddish purple (drying violet). Calyx 4.5-6.5 mm. hardly gibbous, mouth scarcely oblique, glabrous; teeth subequal. triangular-lanceolate, slightly shorter than tube. Standard with narrow limb subequal to claw. Style dorsally compressed, pubescent towards tip. Legume linear-oblong, 25-35(-40) x 6-8 mm. shortly beaked, glabrous. Seeds (3-)5-7, hilum very short. Fl. 4-6. South-facing limestone scree, steppe, uncultivated ground, fields, 700-1850 m. Type: [Turkey B5 Kayseri] in planitie Karahisar Cappadociae (Develi), 1200 m, Balansa 136 (G!). Inner Anatolia, scattered. B3 Eskişehir: nr. Eskişehir, Turkish Sugar Co.! B3/4 Ankara/Eskişehir: Angora (Ankara) to Sivrihisar. Tufnell 58! B4 Ankara: Haymana to Sivrihisar, 4 km E of Saharye river, 720 m, Hub.-Mor. 13357. B5 Kayseri: S of Develi, Reese. B6 Sivas: Gemerek, 1300 m, Stn. & Hend. 5122! B9 Bitlis: outcrop by Lake Van, 24 km W of Ercis, 1850 m, Cheese & Watson 1362! Van: d. Melazgerd (Malazgirt), 20 v 1916, Schischkin. C2 Afyon: 31 km from Çardak to Dinar, 850 m, Hub.-Mor. 17663. Transcaucasia, N. & N.W. Iran. Much has been made of the supposedly ambiguous position of V. paucijuga (Trautv.) B. Fedtsch. between Vicia and Lathyrus, but this species turns out to be synonymous with V. cappadocica Boiss. & Bal., whose dorsally compressed style was wrongly described by Boissier. The species has more in common with V. monantha Retz. (with a laterally compressed style) and even with V. articulata Hornem. (with a filiform style) than with any species of Lathyms. Sect. Ervum (L.) S. F. Gray. Slender annuals, with habit and inflorescence similar to Sect. Cracca (or even Lens), but peduncle 1-6-flowered, flowers smaller (2-12(-14) mm), calyx not gibbous, style shorter (less than 3 mm) and ± terete, shortly pubescent all round or rarely glabrous, legumes oblong-rhomboid or linear, frequently torulose, with coriaceous valves; seeds few. |