Lens esculenta Moench
FABACEAE
- Pea family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)
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Name: Lens esculenta Moench
Nomencl. ref.: Methodus (Moench) 131. 1794 [4 May 1794]
Rank: species
See: ► Lens culinaris Medik.
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Common names
U.S.
name:
Lentil
Grown habit: Forb/herb
Duration: Annual
Synonyms:
= Lens culinaris Medik.
= Cicer lens (L.) Willd.
= Ervum lens L.
TAXONOMY
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Genus: Lens
Species:
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Lens esculenta
Picture modified from Bley, Franz - Botanisches Bilderbuch (1897/98) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Lens esculenta
C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.
Lens esculenta
Picture modified from Graebner, Paul - Taschenbuch zum Pflanzenbestimmen (1918) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
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Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (CA, CT, ID, IN, LA, MA, MD, ME, NJ, NY, PA, WA), CAN (ON, QC)
Map for Lens esculenta Moench
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA
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