Taxon: Vicia faba L. var. faba

Genus:

Vicia

Subgenus:

Vicia

Section:

Faba

Family:

Fabaceae (alt.Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Fabeae

Nomen number:

41482

Place of publication:

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

26-ago-1986 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 28-jun-2013

Species priority site is:

Western Regional PI Station (W6)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

(=) Faba vulgaris var. major Harz
(=) Vicia faba [unranked] major (Harz) Beck

Common names:

broad-bean (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
faba-bean (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
fava-bean (Source: Websters Dict) - English
Windsor-bean (Source: Hortus 3) - English
gourgane (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
grosse fève (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
dicke Bohne (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
Puffbohne (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
haba (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
haba común (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

Human food: pulse (fide F Iraq)
Animal food: fodder (fide Food Feed Crops US)

Distributional Range:

Cultivated

(only cult.)

References:

Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961 (Websters Dict)
Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium Hortus third. 1976 (Hortus 3)
Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998 (Food Feed Crops US)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest Flora of Iraq. 1966- (F Iraq)

Check other web resources for Vicia faba L. var. faba :

ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=41482. Accessed 7 junio 2026.