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
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