Vella (plant)

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Vella
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Vella spinosa
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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]
  • BoleumDesv.
  • CarrichteraAdans.
  • EuzomodendronCoss.
  • PseudocytisusKuntze

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]

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Species

Eight species are accepted. [2]

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. 1 2 3 4 "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