Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

• (=) Ervum monanthos L.
• (=) Vicia monanthos (L.) Desf.

Common names:

• monantha vetch  (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - English
• one-flower vetch  (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
• jarosse d'Auvergne  (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
• Algarobalinse  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• Wicklinse  (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
• lentilha-parda  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
• ervilhaca-algaroba  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• algarroba de Castilla  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• arveja articulada  (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
• spanskvicker  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder
• Human food: pulse (locally used in North Africa on sandy acid soils)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Spain [Canarias]
• NORTHERN AFRICA: Egypt

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Iraq (rare), Turkey (w.)

Europe

• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily)
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: Portugal, Spain


Cultivated




Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia (w.)

Europe

• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France


Adventive

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal [Madeira Islands]

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