Vella (plant)

Genus of flowering plants

Vella

Vella spinosa
Scientific 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.

List source:[2]

## 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

## 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

Taxon identifiers

Vella|

* Wikidata: Q2371001
* Wikispecies: Vella
* APDB: 195797
* APNI: 68286
* BioLib: 107184
* CoL: 92Q8N
* EPPO: 1VELG
* GBIF: 3048702
* GRIN: 12666
* iNaturalist: 514252
* IPNI: 13158-1
* IRMNG: 1360468
* ITIS: 666176
* NCBI: 56475
* Open Tree of Life: 1031224
* POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:13158-1
* Tropicos: 40023539
* WFO: wfo-4000040093

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