Biology:Vella (plant)

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Short description: Genus of flowering plants

Vella
Vella spinosa (Cazorla V-2006) 3.jpg
Vella spinosa
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Vella
L.[1]
Species

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Vella is a genus of plants in the family Brassicaceae, under which there are no fewer than six species.[2] Species are many branched, and have hairy, sessile, entire leaves that are narrower in width at their bases, widening out to form ovals. Fruits are stiff follicles.[3] Vella is endemic to that area of land encompassing Algeria, Morocco, and Spain .[4]

Selected species

  • Vella anremerica (Lit. & Maire) Gómez-Campo
  • Vella bourgaeana (Coss.) Warwick & Al-Shehbaz
  • Vella lucentina M.B.Crespo
  • Vella mairei Humbert
  • Vella pseudocytisus L. (type)
  • Vella spinosa Boiss.
List source:[2]

References

  1. The genus Vella, as well as the type V. pseudocytisus, were originally described and published in Species Plantarum 2: 641. 1753. "Name - Vella L.". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40023539. "Type Specimens: T: Vella pseudocytisus L." 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "TPL, treatment of Vella". The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. 2010. http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Brassicaceae/Vella. 
  3. Carl Linnaeus (1753) (in Latin), Species Plantarum, 2, p. 641, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/358662#page/83/mode/1up, retrieved November 28, 2012, "Planta frutescens, Foliis integris, sessilibus, hirtis, obverse, ovatis, Folliculis erectis." 
  4. Manuel B. Crespo; Segundo Ríos; José L. Vivero; Josefa Prados; Esteban Hernández-Bermejo; M. Dolores Lledó (2005), "A new spineless species of Vella (Brassicaceae) from the high mountains of south-eastern Spain", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 149: 121–128, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2005.00427.x, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228401558 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2371001 entry