PISUM SATIVUM subsp. SATIVUM

Including Pisum fulvum

Family and Genus:- See- LEGUMINOSAE

Common Names:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- None

Meaning:- Pisum (L) Pea.

Sativum (L) Planted, cultivated, not wild, sown.

General description:- A very variable medium to tall, clambering, hairless annual.

Stems:-

1) To 2 m, terete, not winged.

Leaves:-

1) Leaflets, 1-3 pairs, smaller than the stipules, elliptical, rhachis terminating in a

branched tendril.

2) Stipules, very large, broadly ovate, ± cordate at the base.

Flowers:-

1) In axillary 1-3-flowered racemes, longer than the leaves.

2) Calyx teeth, large and ± leaf-like.

3) Corolla, 20-25 mm, with a lilac-purple standard and dark maroon wings.

Fruit:-

1) Legume, 60-80 x 10-14 mm, oblong to broadly linear, faintly reticulate-veined.

2) Seeds, c. 10, spherical, densely papillose.

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Habitat:- Bushy places, dry open shrubby vegetation, cultivated, fallow and waste

ground. 0-400(-1200) m.

Distribution:- Native to the E Mediterranean area and SW Asia. Rare on Crete

known from only a few scattered locations. Domesticated since Neolithic times and

now a major food crop

Flowering time:- Mar-Apr

Photos by:- Steve Lenton

PISUM FULVUM

Meaning:- fulvum (L)

Similar to Pisum sativum, but smaller and more slender.

Leaves:-
1) Leaflets, 1- or 2 pairs, somewhat smaller than stipules, broadly elliptical, dentate
or subentire; tendril slender, branched.
2) Stipules, amplexicaul, ovate, dentate at least in the lower half.

Flowers:-
1) Peduncle, shorter than the leaves, 1(-2)-flowered.
2) Corolla, 15-17 mm, uniformly dull orange with a somewhat paler keel.

Fruits:- Legume
1) c. 40 x 10 mm, oblong.
2) Seeds slightly papillose

Photos