Genus Vicia L.


Summary
Genus number:
12701
Last updated:
5 March 1999
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Fabeae
Common name(s):

vetch
Accession count:

4196 (2657  active, 1549  available) in National Plant Germplasm System
Comments:


Synonyms
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References:
  1. Lewis, G. et al., eds. 2005. Legumes of the world 506.
  2. 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. Note: this study found that the genus Vicia "as currently circumscribed is not monophyletic"
  3. Shiran, 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.
  4. Wouw, M. van de et al. 2001. Molecular taxonomy of Vicia ser. Vicia based on amplified fragment length polymorphisms. Pl. Syst. Evol. 229:91-105.
  5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture Note: food crop, faba bean genepool
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://npgstest.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomygenus?id=12701. Accessed 11 May 2026.