Vicia hirsuta (L.) Gray, Nat. Art. Brit. Pl. 2: 614. 1821; Baker in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 2: 177. 1879; Ali, Bot. Notiser 120: 50. 1967; Collett, Fl. Siml. ed. 2: 135. 1921 (Reprint 1980); Sharma & Kachroo, Fl. Jammu (Illustr.) 2: t. 76. 1983; Dhaliwal & Sharma, Fl. Kullu Dist. 243. 1991; Kaur & Sharma, Fl. Sirmaur 271. 2004; Singh & Sharma, Fl. Chamba Dist. 295. 2006; Verdc. in Milne-Redhead & Polhill, Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (Leguminosae) 1072. 1971; Fl. Pak. @ eFloras.org p. 271; Fl. China @ eFloras.org 10: 570.

Annual herbs, up to 65 cm tall, pubescent. Stem climbing, slender, pubescent. Leaves up to 5.5 cm long, paripinnate, up to 14 leaflets (5-7 pairs); rachis ending in up to 2.5 cm long hairy unbranched tendril; sometimes tendrils absent; leaflets 5-20 mm x 1-3.5 mm, narrowly oblong or lanceolate; apex acute or obtuse or truncate with a mucro, often emarginate; pubescent on whole surface adaxially and confined prominently to midvein abaxially; petioles 2-8 mm and petiolules ca. 1 mm long. Stipules ca. 5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, pubescent. Racemes axillary, shorter than leaf, up to 4.3 cm long in fruit, 2-3 flowered (usually 2) at apex of peduncle, pubescent. Flowers bisexual, zygomorphic, 5-merous, perigynous, ca. 7 mm long, white tinged with blue. Calyx ca. 7 mm long; tube 2-2.5 mm long; lobes ca. 4.5-5.0 mm long, upper two slightly shorter than the lower three, narrow, linear, pubescent. Corolla papilionaceous; vexillum ca 4.5 mm X 4.5 mm, elliptical, emarginate, shortly clawed, 2 pockets above claw; wings and keel smaller than vexillum; wings ca. 3 mm long, clawed (ca. 1 mm long), auriculate, auricles ca. 0.5 mm long, apex obtuse; keel ca. 3 mm long, apex obtuse, base narrow, adnate at apex. Stamens 10, diadelphous (9+1), vexillary stamen free; staminal sheath ca. 4 mm long, filament of vexillary stamen broad at base; anthers uniform. Ovary shortly stipitate, ca. 2.5 mm long, unilocular, 2-ovuled, placentation marginal; style ca. 2 mm long, incurved, cylindric, minutely bearded near to stigma. Legumes 9-12 mm x 4-6 mm, shortly stalked, beaked, elliptic-oblong, flat, glabrous, 1-2 seeded. Seeds ca. 5 mm long and across, rounded, glabrous, with persistent funiculus.

**In literature, legumes in this species are reported to be hairy.Since the studied specimens have 1-2 seeds per pod and in addition to other features of leaves and inflorescence this species is treated as Vicia hirsuta.

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