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    Vella (plant)

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

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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

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    • 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.
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    References

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    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 "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.
    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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