Fabaceae
Vicia

Vicia monantha Retz.

First published in Observ. Bot. 3: 39 (1783)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Canary Islands, Medit. to W. Himalaya and Arabian Peninsula. It is a scrambling annual or perennial and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Descriptions

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Not Threatened
Morphology General Habit
Annual, Climbing, Herb
Vernacular
Bard Vetch, Square-stemmed Vetch
[ILDIS]

Seed Collecting Guide. RBG Kew (2013-2016)

Morphology General Habit
Annual herbs, (5-)20-55(- 75) cm tall, stems branching from the base, procumbent to erect. vegetative parts sparsely adpressed-pilose
Morphology Leaves Stipules
stipules small, 3-4 mm long, semi-hastate-bipartate to sparsely dentate
Morphology Leaves
leaflets 4-8-paired, 5-25(-35) mm long by 1-5(-8) mm wide, oblong-elliptic, oblanceolate or lanceolate
Morphology Leaves Rachis
rachis terminating a branched tendril, shorter than the leaf
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
peduncle and raceme shorter than leaf, often terminally aristate
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
flowers 2-6 per inflorescence, occasionally solitary, 10-15 mm long; calyx (3-)5-6 mm long, campanulate, mouth oblique, pubescent, teeth shorter than tube, unequal; corolla longer than wide, violet to blue, limb of standard shorter than claw.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
pods shortly stipitate, oblong-linear, 20-35 mm long by (5-)5-8.5 mm wide, laterally compressed, glabrous
Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
3-6 per fruit, subglobose, hilum comprising about 1/6 of circumference.
Ecology
fallow and cultivated fields. altitude 900 - 1300 m
Distribution
Throughout the Mediterranean, South-West Asia.
Conservation
Near endangered
Phenology
Flower (april - may), fruit (no data)
[SCG]

Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds Protein Content

28.60% Entire seed/nut. Moisture content not stated (Barclay & Earle, 1974)

[SID]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Uses

Use
Forage, Weed
[ILDIS]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    • International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

  • Seed Information Database

    • Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. (2019) Seed Information Database (SID). Version 7.1. Available from: http://data.kew.org/sid/ (September 2019)
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Seed Collection Guides

    • Seed Collection Guides
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • World Checklist of Vascular plants (WCVP)

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0