Vella (plant)
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| Vella spinosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Vella L.[1] |
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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
- Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
Type Specimens: T: Vella pseudocytisus L.
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ Carl Linnaeus (1753), Species Plantarum (in Latin), vol. 2, p. 641, retrieved November 28, 2012,
Planta frutescens, Foliis integris, sessilibus, hirtis, obverse, ovatis, Folliculis erectis.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vella (Brassicaceae).
- An illustration of Vella pseudocytisus (published in 1818), from plantillustrations.org
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