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Taxon:
Vicia faba
L.
Nomenclature
Common Names
Distribution
Economic Uses
Summary
Genus:
Vicia
Subgenus:
Vicia
Section:
Faba
Family:
Fabaceae
(alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Fabeae
Nomen number:
300661
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 2:737. 1753
Protologue link:
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358758
Typification:
View in Linnean Typification Project
Verified:
04/12/2011
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0
(
0
active,
0
available)
in National Plant Germplasm System.
Other conspecific taxa
Vicia faba
L. var.
equina
St.-Amans
(0 active accession[s])
Vicia faba
L. var.
faba
(0 active accession[s])
Vicia faba
L. var.
minuta
(hort. ex Alef.) Mansf.
(0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Faba bona
Medik.
Faba vulgaris
Moench
Faba vulgaris
Moench var.
paucijuga
Alef.
Vicia faba
L. subsp.
paucijuga
Muratova
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Reference(s)
Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds.
Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/content/cultural/Vicia_faba_K/
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson.
2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
www.skud.info
Allkin, R. et al.
1986. Names and synonyms of species and subspecies in the Vicieae: issue 3. Vicieae Database Project 7:54.
Botanical Society of the British Isles.
BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
URL:
http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/BSBI/taxonsearch.php
Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson.
1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning
Note:
poisonous
Cronquist, A. et al.
1972-. Intermountain flora.
Cubero, J. I. & M. J. Suso.
1981. Primitive and modern forms of
Vicia faba
. Kulturpflanze 29:137-145.
Note:
based on the absence of fertility barriers this study proposed the recognition of one subspecies
Davis, P. H., ed.
1965-1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
Demilly, D. et al.
2001. Liste alphabétique des principales espèces de plantes cultivées et de mauvaises herbes. Noms latins et noms français, ed. 7
Note:
GEVES-SNES, Beaucouzé, France
Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage
Fennell, S. R. et al.
1998. Phylogenetic relationships between
Vicia faba
(Fabaceae) and related species inferred from chloroplast
trnL
sequences. Pl. Syst. Evol. 212:247-259.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/606
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
URL:
http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Vicia+faba&quantity=1
Fouché, J.-G.
1999. pers. comm.
Note:
re. French common names
Frediani, M. et al.
2005. Nuclear DNA contents, rDNAs, and karyotype evolution in
Vicia
subgenus
Vicia
: II. Section Peregrinae. Protoplasma 226:181-190.
Note:
this study confirmed that
Vicia faba
is far apart from members of section Narbonensis, instead it is closer to members of section Peregrinae
Hanelt, P., ed.
2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
URL:
http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:2422827336895397#
Hanelt, P.
1972. Die infraspezifische Variabilitet von
Vicia faba
L. und ihre Gliederung. Kulturpflanze 20:75-128.
International Seed Testing Association.
1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
Kellerman, T. S. et al.
1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa
Note:
poisonous
Kingsbury, J. M.
1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
Note:
poisonous
Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934-1964. Flora SSSR.
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
Mun-Chan, B. et al.
1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:133.
Munro, D. B.
Canadian poisonous plants information system (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.cbif.gc.ca/pls/pp/poison?p_x=px
Perrino, P. et al.
1991. Chemotaxonomic relationship among species of
Vicia
section
Faba
. Feddes Repert. 102:319-334.
URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291522-239Xb/issues
Personal Care Products Council.
INCI
URL:
http://www.personalcarecouncil.org/public/what-inci
Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
Quézel, P. & S. Santa.
1962-1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
Raynaud, C.
1976. Monographie et iconographie du genre
Vicia
L. au Maroc. Bull. Inst. Sci. Univ. Mohammed V. 1:155.
Redden, R. et al.
2014. Chapter 4. Faba bean. Broadening the genetic base of grain legumes 75-93.
Note:
this review recognized cross incompatibilities between 2n=12
Vicia faba
and wild
Vicia
species
Rubiales, D. et al.
2013. Response of vetches (
Vicia
spp.) to specialized forms of
Uromyces vicia-fabae
and to
Uromyces pis
. Crop Protect. 46:38-43.
Note:
this study tested susceptibility of several species of
Vicia
to rust fungi; it confirmed the isolated position of
Vicia faba
in relation to other species; it also noted that more specialized fungi (
Uromyces viciae-fabae
ex.
V. faba
) were restricted to faba bean
Schaefer, H. et al.
2012. Systematics, biogeography, and character evolution of the legume tribe Fabeae with special focus on the middle-Atlantic island lineages. B. M. C. Evol. Biol. 12:250.
URL:
http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcevolbiol/
Note:
it found a non-monophyletic
Vicia
, and
V. faba
distant to other members of sect.
Faba
, and with poor support in a polytomic phylogeny close to
V. grandiflora
-
V. sepium
-
V. angustifolia
clade
Shiram, B. et al.
2014. Internal transcribed spacer sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA resolving complex taxonomic history in the genus
Vicia
L. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 61:909-925.
URL:
http://link.springer.com/journal/volumesAndIssues/10722
Note:
it examined 49
Vicia
samples and four of
Lathyrus
; it found
Vicia faba
to be sister to 2n=14 species
V. michauxii
and
V. peregrina
of sect.
Peregrinae
, and distant to members of the
Narbonensis
complex that were resolved closer to faba by Schaefer et al. 2012
Smýkal, P. et al.
2015. Legume crops phylogeny and genetic diversity for science and breeding. Crit. Rev. Pl. Sci. 34:43-104.
Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest.
1966-. Flora of Iraq.
Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964-1980. Flora europaea.
University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.
UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/ccrop/
Walker, E.
1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-. Flora of China (English edition).
URL:
http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
1961. Webster's third new international dictionary.
PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.prota4u.info/
Common names
English
bell-bean –
Reference(s)
broad-bean –
Reference(s)
faba-bean –
Reference(s)
fava-bean –
Reference(s)
French
fève –
Reference(s)
féverole –
Reference(s)
Italian
fava –
Reference(s)
favetta –
Reference(s)
favino –
Reference(s)
Japanese Rōmaji
sora-mame –
Reference(s)
Swedish
bondböna –
Reference(s)
Transcribed Chinese
can dou –
Reference(s)
Transliterated Russian
konskij bob –
Reference(s)
Distribution
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Status
Continent
Subcontinent
Country
State
Note
2
Cultivated
widely cult.
6
Other
origin unknown
Cultivated
(widely cult.)
Other
(origin unknown)
Economic Uses
Usage
Type
Note
Reference
Environmental
soil improver
University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program.
UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
URL:
http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/ccrop/
Medicines
folklore
Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs
Vertebrate poisons
mammals
Kingsbury, J. M.
1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
Note:
poisonous
Vertebrate poisons
mammals
Kellerman, T. S. et al.
1988. Plant poisonings and mycotoxicoses of livestock in Southern Africa
Note:
poisonous
Vertebrate poisons
mammals
Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson.
1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning
Note:
poisonous
Name
References