PISUML. - PEA
Scientific Description:
Tendrillous, glabrous annuals, often climbing. Differing from Lathyrus L. in its terete stems; large leafy toothed stipules (usually larger than the 2−6 leaflets) with a rounded, dentate, semi-amplexicaul at base; calyx teeth broad, ± leafy; keel cristate below and towards the tip, adherent to the wings; proximal part of style with retroflexed margins, distal part bearded on the upper surface. Ditypic.
Reference:
Davis PH (1970). Pisum L., In: Davis PH (ed.), Flora of Turkey and the East Aegean Islands, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 3: 370.
Public Description:
Pisum, known as “pea”, is a genus of climbing annual plants, and is native to southwest Asia and northeast Africa. There are 7 species in the world and 2 species (9 taxa) in Türkiye. “Pisum” is the ancient Latin name of meaning “pea”. Pisum sativum L. (the field or garden pea), is a major human food crop.
References:
Anonymous (2018). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisum/, Accessed date: 25.03.2018.
Keskin M (2012). Pisum L., In: Güner, A., Aslan, S., Ekim, T., Vural, M. & Babaç, M.T. (eds.), Türkiye Bitkileri Listesi (Damarlı Bitkiler). Nezahat Gökyiğit Botanik Bahçesi ve Flora Araştırmaları Derneği Yayını. İstanbul, pp. 485.
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