Family:
Fabaceae Lindl.
Genus:
Coronilla L.

Coronilla cretica L.

This species is accepted, and its native range is SE. Europe to E. Medit. and Caucasus.

[ILDIS]

International Legume Database and Information Service

Conservation
Endangered
Morphology General Habit
Annual/Perennial, Not climbing, Herb
Vernacular
Girkan Achyioncha, Kararvuit Kreti, Krit Achyioncha, Sekiroplodnik Girkanski, Sekiroplodnik Kritski, Vyazel Girkanski, Vyazel Kritski, Vyazil Kritskyi

[ILDIS]
Use
Environmental, Forage, Medicine

Native to:

Albania, Bulgaria, East Aegean Is., Greece, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, North Caucasus, Palestine, Transcaucasus, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Ukraine, Yugoslavia

Introduced into:

Romania

Coronilla cretica L. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Sp. Pl.: 743 (1753)

Accepted by

  • Sokoloff, D., Santos, A., Kramina, T. & Alayon, D. (2021). Personal communicaton on Fabaceae, Loteae. 1.

Not accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Securigera cretica.]
  • Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M. & Long, G. (eds.) (1989). Med-checklist 4: 1-458. Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève. [Cited as Securigera cretica.]
  • Yakovlev, G.P., Sytin, A.K. & Roskov, Y.R. (1996). Legumes of Northern Eurasia. A checklist: 1-724. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Securigera cretica.]

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Greuter, W., Burdet, H.M. & Long, G. (eds.) (1989). Med-checklist 4: 1-458. Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève.
  • Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1968). Flora Europaea 2: 1-469. Cambridge University Press.
  • Urziceanu, M. & al. (2020). Updated list of non-native ornamental plants in Romania. Contributii Botanice Universitatea "Babes-Bolyai" din Cluj-Napoca 55: 59-82.
  • Yakovlev, G.P., Sytin, A.K. & Roskov, Y.R. (1996). Legumes of Northern Eurasia. A checklist: 1-724. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Zervous, S., Raus, T. & Yannitsaros, A. (2009). Additons to the flora of the island of Kalimnos (SE Aegean, Greece). Willdenowia 39: 165-177.

  • International Legume Database and Information Service

    International Legume Database and Information Service (ILDIS) V10.39 Nov 2011
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  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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