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Lathyrus aphaca

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Yellow Vetchling
• Grass Pea
• Wild Pea
• Akare (Nepali)
• Jangali Matar (Nepali)
• Pitpir (Nepali)
• Yellow-flowered Pea
• Yellow Pea
• Jangli-matur (India)
• Bitter Vetch
• Bindweed
• Gesse sans Feuilles (French)
• Poigreau (French)
• Ranken-platterbse (German)
• Janglimatar (Hindi)
• Rewari (Punjab)
• Chickling Vetch
• Tawt-sadawpe (Myanmar)
• China Bezlistochkovaya
• Gesse aphylle
• Jangli Matter
• Pili Matter
• Ranken Platterbse

Geographical Habitats

• Afghanistan
• Britain
• Ethiopia
• France
• Greece
• India
• Italy
• Myanmar
• Portugal
• Spain

Natural Habitats

• Cultivated land.

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug (Britain)

Fruiting Times

Glabrous scrambling annual tendril vine or herb with solitary or rarely biflowered inflorescence of 18mm yellow flowers with paler keel in terminal & axillary clusters, seed pod brown to 35mm long, simple tendrils

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Huxley 1992
• Norton 1996
• Manandhar 2002
• FONZ
• FOBI
• Bodkin
• JDH
• APDC
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• USNH
• Botanicus