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 flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae which includes eight 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 species are native to Algeria, Morocco, and Spain.[4]
Species
[edit]Eight species are accepted.[2]
- Vella anremerica (Lit. & Maire) Gómez-Campo
- Vella aspera Pers.
- Vella bourgaeana (Coss.) Warwick & Al-Shehbaz
- Vella castrilensis Vivero, Prados, Hern.-Berm., M.B.Crespo, S.Ríos & Lledó
- Vella lucentina M.B.Crespo
- Vella mairei Humbert
- Vella pseudocytisus L. (type)
- Vella spinosa Boiss.
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d "Vella L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vella (Brassicaceae).
- An illustration of Vella pseudocytisus (published in 1818), from plantillustrations.org
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