Taxon: Vicia faba L. var. equina St.-Amans

Genus:

Vicia

Subgenus:

Vicia

Section:

Faba

Family:

Fabaceae (alt.Leguminosae)

Subfamily:

Faboideae

Tribe:

Fabeae

Nomen number:

41483

Place of publication:

Fl. agen. 296. 1821 (C. H. Persoon, Syn. pl. 2:308. 1807 "β equina")

Link to protologue:

Comment:

fide Greuter (1968 and pers. comm. via e-mail on 4 Aug 2014) the taxa preceded by Greek letters in Persoon's work should be treated as unranked

Typification:

Name Verified on:

04-ago-2014 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 13-mar-2017

Species priority site is:

Western Regional PI Station (W6)

Accessions:

0 in National Plant Germplasm System

Other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

(≡) Vicia faba subsp. equina (Pers.) Schübl. & G. Martens
(≡) Vicia faba var. minor Peterm.

Common names:

field-bean (Source: F Iraq) - English
horse-bean (Source: F Iraq) - English
fève à cheval (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
Pferdebohne (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
faveira (Source: Dict Rehm) - Portuguese
haba cabalar (Source: Food Feed Crops US) - Spanish

Economic Importance:

Animal food: fodder (fide F Iraq)

Distributional Range:

Cultivated

(only cult.)

References:

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. equina St.-Amans :

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=41483. Accessed 7 junio 2026.