Abstract
Vicia vulcanorum J. Gil & M. L. Gil (Fabaceae), a new species of subg. Cracca (Dumort.) Peterm., sect. Cracca Dumort. is described and illustrated from the island of Lanzarote, Canary Islands, north-west of Africa. It is related to and compared with Vicia cirrhosa C. Sm. ex Webb & Berthel. and Vicia filicaulis Webb & Berthel., two endemic species from the western and central group of the Canary Islands, and Vicia ferreirensis Goyder, an endemic species from Porto Santo Island, Madeira Archipelago.
Highlights
The genus Vicia L. (Fabaceae) is widely distributed throughout the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere and non-tropical South America (Leht, 2009)
Morphological characters traditionally used in the description of Vicia species were evaluated and, in order to determine their stability, seeds gathered at the classical locus of the new species were sowed at Centro de Agrobiodiversidad de La Palma (CAP) under very different edaphoclimatic conditions
The new species was compared with V. cirrhosa, V. filicaulis and V. ferreirensis
Summary
The genus Vicia L. (Fabaceae) is widely distributed throughout the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere and non-tropical South America (Leht, 2009). (Fabaceae) is widely distributed throughout the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere and non-tropical South America (Leht, 2009). The number of species recognized in the genus ranges from about 140 accepted by Kupicha (1976) up to 210 used by Hanelt & Mettin (1989). During the field work for the “Flora Vascular de Canarias” project (www.floradecanarias.com), some interesting and previously unknown specimens of Vicia were collected by M.
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