Vella (plant)

Vella
Vella spinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Vella
Species
  • See text

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. Retrieved November 28, 2012. Type Specimens: T: Vella pseudocytisus L.
  2. 1 2 "TPL, treatment of Vella". The Plant List; Version 1. (published on the internet). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden. 2010. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  3. ↑ Carl Linnaeus (1753), Species Plantarum (in Latin), 2, p. 641, 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, and M. Dolores Lledó (2005), "A new spineless species of Vella (Brassicaceae) from the high mountains of south-eastern Spain" (PDF), Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 149: 121–128


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