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VICHI
VICHI
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Cracca hirsuta (L.) Gennari |
| synonym | Cracca hirsuta (L.) Gennari |
| synonym | Cracca hirsuta (L.)Gennari |
| synonym | Cracca minor Gren. & Godr. |
| synonym | Endiusa hirsuta Alef. |
| synonym | Ervilia hirsuta Opiz |
| synonym | Ervilia vulgaris Godr. |
| synonym | Ervum filiforme Roxb. |
| synonym | Ervum hirsutum L. |
| synonym | Vicia coreana H.Lev. |
| synonym | Vicia coreana H.Lev. |
| synonym | Vicia coreana H.Lév. |
| synonym | Vicia mitchellii Raf. |
| synonym | Vicia parviflora Lapeyr. |
| synonym | Vicia taquetii H.Lev. |
| synonym | Vicia taquetii H.Lev. |
| synonym | Vicia taquetii H.Lév. |
| synonym | Vicioides hirsuta Moench |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Global description
Vicia hirsuta is a slender herbaceous plant, pubescent, prostrate or erect by climbing on other plants, reaching 70 cm long. The stem is angular. The stipulated leaves, ending by a branched tendril, are composed of many narrow elongated leaflets. The flowers, small, bluish in color, are grouped into small axillary clusters with peduncle not exceeding the corresponding leaf. The fruit is a hairy pod, short and wide, black when ripe, and containing two spherical seeds.
General habit
Hairy annual herb, slender, drawling to erect, by climbing on other plants, 20 to 70 cm long.
Underground system
Taproot system.
Stem
The stem is slender, angular, with a sparse pubescence.
Leaf
The leaves are alternate and composite. The petiole is framed by two half halberd stipules, 2 to 5 mm long, entire or with 2 to 3 tines. The leaflets are almost glabrous, linear-oblong, 5 to 20 mm long and 1 to 3 mm wide, arranged in 4 to 10 pairs. The leaf ends with a tendril which is usually branched.
Inflorescence
The flowers are grouped by 3-8 axillary racemes (2-6 cm long) with aristate stalk same length as the leaf or shorter. Inflorescences are located in the upper part of the plant.
Flower
The calyx is pubescent, 3 mm long, consists of a tube extended by long equal, linear and pointed tines. Papilionaceous corolla, 3 to 5 mm, and bluish white in colour.
Fruit
The fruit is an embossed hairy pod, short oblong, 7 to 10 mm long and 3 to 4 mm wide, finished in beak, pubescent, rarely glabrous, and blackish in color when ripe, containing 2 seeds.
Seed
The seed is spherical, o2 to 3 mm in diameter. The scar from its attachment to the pod is big as a third of its periphery.
Vicia hirsuta is a slender herbaceous plant, pubescent, prostrate or erect by climbing on other plants, reaching 70 cm long. The stem is angular. The stipulated leaves, ending by a branched tendril, are composed of many narrow elongated leaflets. The flowers, small, bluish in color, are grouped into small axillary clusters with peduncle not exceeding the corresponding leaf. The fruit is a hairy pod, short and wide, black when ripe, and containing two spherical seeds.
General habit
Hairy annual herb, slender, drawling to erect, by climbing on other plants, 20 to 70 cm long.
Underground system
Taproot system.
Stem
The stem is slender, angular, with a sparse pubescence.
Leaf
The leaves are alternate and composite. The petiole is framed by two half halberd stipules, 2 to 5 mm long, entire or with 2 to 3 tines. The leaflets are almost glabrous, linear-oblong, 5 to 20 mm long and 1 to 3 mm wide, arranged in 4 to 10 pairs. The leaf ends with a tendril which is usually branched.
Inflorescence
The flowers are grouped by 3-8 axillary racemes (2-6 cm long) with aristate stalk same length as the leaf or shorter. Inflorescences are located in the upper part of the plant.
Flower
The calyx is pubescent, 3 mm long, consists of a tube extended by long equal, linear and pointed tines. Papilionaceous corolla, 3 to 5 mm, and bluish white in colour.
Fruit
The fruit is an embossed hairy pod, short oblong, 7 to 10 mm long and 3 to 4 mm wide, finished in beak, pubescent, rarely glabrous, and blackish in color when ripe, containing 2 seeds.
Seed
The seed is spherical, o2 to 3 mm in diameter. The scar from its attachment to the pod is big as a third of its periphery.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Annual
Reproduction
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Vicia hirsuta is an annual species, it reproduces by seeds.
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Morphology
Growth form
Erected
Liana climbing structure
Liana with tendrils
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Compound
Type of prefoliation
Leaf ratio medium
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Ridged or grooved
Root type
Taproot
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
Stipule dissected or laciniate
Stipule with appendix
Leaf attachment type
with petiole
Fruit type
Pod
Pod type
Compressed pod in section
Lamina base
rounded
Lamina margin
hairy
entire
Lamina apex
attenuate
Upperface pilosity
Glabrous
Less hairy
Upperface hair type
Long
Lowerface pilosity
Less hairy
Glabrous
Lowerface hair type
Long
Lamina section
flat
Lamina Veination
in arc
Flower color
Pinkish
Purple
Inflorescence type
Pedonculate glomerule
Axillary solitary flower
Stem pilosity
Less hairy
Stem hair type
Pubescent
Life form
Broadleaf plant
Look Alikes
Vicia sativa can be easily confused with other three species of the genus Vicia present in the region V. villosa Roth, V. hirsuta (L.) Gray, V. tetrasperma (L.) Schreb. The main characters to differentiate these species are:
- V. villosa: flowers in groups of 20 to 40, pod 20 to 30 mm long.
- V. hirsuta: flowers in groups of 1 to 6, pod 7 to 10 mm long, 2-seeded.
- V. tetrasperma: flowers in groups of 1 to 6, pod 8 to 15 mm long, containing 3 to 4 seeds.
- V. villosa: flowers in groups of 20 to 40, pod 20 to 30 mm long.
- V. hirsuta: flowers in groups of 1 to 6, pod 7 to 10 mm long, 2-seeded.
- V. tetrasperma: flowers in groups of 1 to 6, pod 8 to 15 mm long, containing 3 to 4 seeds.
| Vicia sativa | Vicia hirsuta | |
| Leaflets |
oblong 10 to 40 mm long 2 to 15 mm large |
Narrowly linear 5 to 20 mm long 1 to 3 mm de large |
| Pods |
35 to 70 mm long 5 to 9 mm large |
7 to 10 mm long 3 to 4 mm large |
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Ecology
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Reunion: Vicia hirsuta can only be found in cultivated fields in the cirque of Cilaos at an altitude of around 600 m, particularly in lentil crops.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Description
Geographical distibution
Madagascar
Reunion Island
Mauritius
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Origin
Vicia hirsuta is native to Europe; Western and Central Asia to India; North Africa and Northern Africa.
Worldwide distribution
This species has been introduced into many areas, including North and temperate South America, southern Africa, northern Asia and Australia and New Zealand. It has also been introduced into the Indian Ocean at Reunion Island.
Vicia hirsuta is native to Europe; Western and Central Asia to India; North Africa and Northern Africa.
Worldwide distribution
This species has been introduced into many areas, including North and temperate South America, southern Africa, northern Asia and Australia and New Zealand. It has also been introduced into the Indian Ocean at Reunion Island.
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
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Local harmfulness
Reunion : Vicia hirsuta is a weed which is not very abundant but frequent in lentil crops in the region of Cilaos. It is present in 60% of the plots.
Thomas Le Bourgeois
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📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
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References
- Lebreton, G. and T. Le Bourgeois (2005). Analyse de la flore adventice de la lentille à Cilaos - Réunion. Saint Pierre, Réunion, Cirad: 19
- Berhaut, J. 1976. Flore illustrée du Sénégal. Dicotylédones, tome 5, Légumineuses Papilionacées. Gouvernement du Sénégal, Ministère du Développement Rural et de l’Hydraulique, Direction des Eaux et Forêts, Dakar, Sénégal.
Information Listing > References
- Lebreton, G. and T. Le Bourgeois (2005). Analyse de la flore adventice de la lentille à Cilaos - Réunion. Saint Pierre, Réunion, Cirad: 19
- Berhaut, J. 1976. Flore illustrée du Sénégal. Dicotylédones, tome 5, Légumineuses Papilionacées. Gouvernement du Sénégal, Ministère du Développement Rural et de l’Hydraulique, Direction des Eaux et Forêts, Dakar, Sénégal.
Images
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Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Vicia%2520hirsuta
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Vicia |
| Species | Vicia hirsuta (L.) Gray |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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