Vella (plant)

Vella
Vella spinosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Vella L.[1]
Species
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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

• Vella anremerica (Lit. & Maire) Gómez-Campo
• Vella bourgaeana (Coss.) Warwick & Al-Shehbaz
• Vella lucentina M.B.Crespo
• Vella mairei Humbert
• Vella pseudocytisus L. (type)
• Vella spinosa Boiss.

List source:^[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. "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.
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

External links

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