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]
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| Vella spinosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Brassicales |
| Family: | Brassicaceae |
| Genus: | Vella L.[1] |
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Selected species
edit- 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
edit- ^ 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), vol. 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; 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
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- An illustration of Vella pseudocytisus (published in 1818), from plantillustrations.org
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