Vella (plant)

Vella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Vella; L.
Species
	See text

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[]

(Lit. & Maire) Gómez-Campo
(Coss.) Warwick & Al-Shehbaz
M.B.Crespo
Humbert
L. (type)
Boiss.

List source:^[2]

References[]

^ 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.
^ ^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.
^ Carl Linnaeus (1753), Species Plantarum (in Latin), 2, p. 641, retrieved November 28, 2012, Planta frutescens, Foliis integris, sessilibus, hirtis, obverse, ovatis, Folliculis erectis.
^ Manuel B. Crespo, Segundo Ríos, José L. Vivero, Josefa Prados, Esteban Hernández-Bermejo, and 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.xCS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

External links[]

An illustration of Vella pseudocytisus (published in 1818), from plantillustrations.org

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[trop3-1] 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.

[tpl-2] "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.

[sp-3] Carl Linnaeus (1753), Species Plantarum (in Latin), 2, p. 641, retrieved November 28, 2012, Planta frutescens, Foliis integris, sessilibus, hirtis, obverse, ovatis, Folliculis erectis.

[bjls-4] Manuel B. Crespo, Segundo Ríos, José L. Vivero, Josefa Prados, Esteban Hernández-Bermejo, and 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.xCS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

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