Family |
Fabaceae
Vicia tenuifolia
Roth
Vicia tenuifolia Roth
First published in Tent. Fl. Germ. 1: 309 (1788).
(Nouvelle Flore du Liban et de la Syrie, vol. 2, pp. 409–410, Pl. CLXIX, 1–3; 1970)
• Life-form & habit: Perennial with appressed bristly hairs and tall, fairly rigid, ascending or climbing stems that can exceed 1 m.
• Leaves: Leaves with 9–10 pairs of lanceolate to narrowly linear leaflets; stipules half-hastate.
• Inflorescence & flowers: Many-flowered, relatively loose racemes on stalks longer than the adjacent leaves. Flowers often pale blue-violet, 10–12 mm long. Calyx about one-third as long as the corolla, with teeth shorter than the tube. The blade of the standard is longer than its claw.
• Fruit: Stalked pod, with its supporting stalk extending beyond the calyx.
• Phenology: May–July.
• Habitat & elevation: Grassy places, woodland and scrub.
• Lebanese distribution: Explicitly identified as typical V. tenuifolia: Ehden, Ehden forest and above Faraya. Records with variety unspecified: Akkar mountains, the Cedars, Hadeth cedar forest, Bcharre, Hasroun, Ehden forest, Tannourine, Jabal Barouk and Sannine.
• Syrian distribution: Explicitly typical: Ain Haramiyé and Sahouet el Khodor. Variety unspecified: Massiaf–Qadmous.
• Recorded locations: Sannine.
• Native range: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Altay, Austria, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Central European Russia, China South-Central, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, North Caucasus, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Palestine, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Sicilia, South European Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Tuva, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, West Himalaya, West Siberia, Xinjiang.
• Introduced into: Great Britain, Hawaii, Netherlands, Ontario, Sakhalin, Wisconsin.
⚠️ Taxonomic note: Mouterde also includes a predominantly narrow-leaved subsp. stenophylla. Kew places V. tenuifolia subsp. stenophylla Velen. under V. dalmatica and var. stenophylla Boiss. under V. cracca. The localities Mouterde explicitly assigns to stenophylla are therefore excluded here; his unspecified-variety records remain qualified.