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

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

• Basionym: Ervum tetraspermum L.
• (=) Vicia gemella Crantz
• (-) Vicia tetrasperma subsp. tetrasperma (L.) Schreb.

Common names:

• four-seed vetch  (Source: AH 505) - English
• lentil tare  (Source: Websters Dict) - English
• slender vetch  (Source: Websters Dict) - English
• smooth tare  (Source: F BritStace) - English
• smooth vetch   - English
• sparrow vetch  (Source: AH 505) - English
• four-seeded vetch  (Source: ICAW) - English (Canada)
• vesce à quatre graines  (Source: ICAW) - French (Canada)
• kasuma-gusa  (Source: F Okin) - Japanese Rōmaji
• sparvvicker  (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
• gorošek četyrechsemjannyj  (Source: Mansf Ency) - Transliterated Russian

Economic Importance:

• Animal food: fodder
• Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide Geigy Weed Tables. 1968)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• MACARONESIA: Portugal, [Madeira Islands] Spain [Canarias]
• NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia

Asia-Temperate

• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel (rare), Jordan, Turkey
• CAUCASUS: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation [Checheno-Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia, Krasnodar, Stavropol]
• SIBERIA: Russian Federation [Buryatia, Gorno-Altay, Khakassia, Tuva, Altay, Krasnoyarsk, Kemerovo, Kurgan, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Sverdlovsk, Tomsk, Tyumen]
• MIDDLE ASIA: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
• CHINA: China
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, [Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku] Korea

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan, India (n.w.), Pakistan (n.)

Europe

• NORTHERN EUROPE: Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden
• MIDDLE EUROPE: Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland
• EASTERN EUROPE: Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, [Bashkortostan, Chuvashia, Mari-El, Mordvinia, Tatarstan, Udmurtia, Belgorod, Bryansk, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kirov, Kostroma, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Moscow, Novgorod, Orel, Orenburg, Penza, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan, Saratov, Smolensk, Tambov, Tula, Ulyanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl] Ukraine (incl. Krym)
• SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania, Bulgaria, Former Yugoslavia, Greece, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Malta, Romania
• SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica), Spain (incl. Baleares)


Naturalized (widely natzd. elsewhere)

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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=41583. Accessed 29 September 2024.