Vicia cassia
Vicia cassia
Morbakla
Annual, glabrous to sparsely pilose-pubescent, 40-120 cm, climbing. Leaflets 4-7-paired, 5-22 x 1-6 mm, linear-elliptic to linear, retuse or truncate to acutish; stipules ± stipitate, semi-sagittate to linear-lanceolate; tendrils simple or forked. Peduncles often about ½ as long as leaf, laxly 3-10-flowered. Pedicels 2-4 mm. Flowers 15-22 mm, violet. Calyx 5-7 mm, strongly gibbous with an oblique mouth, subglabrous to sparingly pilose; teeth shorter than tube, subulate to narrowly triangular. Limb of standard about as long as claw; wings paler. Style dorsally compressed. Legume oblong- to linear-rhomboid, 20-33 x 5-8 mm, slightly concave above, glabrous. Seeds 3-5, hilum c. ½ of the perimeter. Fl. 4-6. Forest, macchie, hedges, rocky slopes, s.I.-1000 m.
Cyprus, W. Syria. E. Medit. element.
