Vella (plant)

Vella
Vella spinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Brassicaceae
Genus: Vella
L.[1]
Species[2]

8; see text

Synonyms[2]
  • Boleum Desv.
  • Carrichtera Adans.
  • Euzomodendron Coss.
  • Pseudocytisus Kuntze

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

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ a b c d "Vella L." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 3 October 2025.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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
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