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Vicia benthamiana Ali in Bot.Notiser. 120:51. 1967.

  • Vicia mollis Benth. ex Baker

    A suberect perennial, stem pilose; stipules 5-15 mm long, 2-armed or sometimes branched, pilose. Leaf pinnately sometimes imparipinnately compound, petiole 7-20 mm long, pilose, rachis c. 4.0-11.0 cm long (excluding the tendril), ending in tendril, leaflets 8-22, petiolule less than 1 mm long, pilose, lamina c. 0.8-2.8 cm long, 2-4.5 mm broad, entire, acute, glabrous above, pilose below. Inflorescence an axillary, pedunculate raceme, peduncle 2.4-8.5 cm, pilose; pedicel c. 1 mm long, pilose. Calyx c. 8-9 mm long, pilose, teeth subequal 3.5-4 mm long. Corolla yellow. Vexillum 2.2-2.5 cm long. Fruit stipitate, tapering at both ends, densely pilose; 3-4 cm long (mature fruit not seen).

    Fl.Per.: August.

    Holotype: Valley of Kishenganga, 1852, Winterbottom (K).

    Distribution: Kashmir; Chitral.


     

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