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Cicer

chickpea, cicer
Habit Herbs, annual [perennial], unarmed [armed], glandular- or/and eglandular-pubescent, except corolla.
Stems

semi-erect or erect to prostrate, straight or flexuous, pubescent, sometimes glandular-pubescent.
Leaves

alternate, odd-pinnate;

stipules present, foliaceous, sometimes larger than proximalmost leaflets, toothed [spiny];

rachis apex with leaflet [tendril or spines];

petiolate;

leaflets [3–]6–20[–36], blade margins dentate except at base, surfaces glandular-pubescent.
Inflorescences

1(or 2)[–5]-flowered, axillary, racemes;

bracts present, persistent;

bracteoles absent.
Flowers

papilionaceous;

calyx gibbous at base abaxially [subregular], lobes 5;

corolla white to pink, purple, or blue;

stamens 10, diadelphous;

anthers basifixed;

ovary pubescent;

style glabrous;

stigma relatively small.
Fruits

legumes, pedicellate, inflated, rhomboid-ellipsoid [ellipsoid to obovoid-rhomboid], late-dehiscent, densely pubescent, mostly glandular-pubescent.
Seeds

1 or 2[–4], ovoid-globular or angular [bilobular to globular].
x

= 8.

Cicer
Distribution
from USDA
s Europe (Greece, Turkey); c Asia; s Asia (India); n Africa; Atlantic Islands (Canary Islands) [Introduced in North America; introduced also in Mexico, South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile)]
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Discussion

Species 44 (1 in the flora).

Cicer is the only genus in tribe Cicereae. The range of closely related wild Cicer species points to a middle-eastern origin in Syria and Turkey for use of chickpea as a food plant. From there, the cultivated chickpea was distributed to circum-mediterranean areas and to central and southern Asia from Iran to India.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 11. Author: L. J. G. van der Maesen.
Parent taxa Fabaceae > subfam. Faboideae
Subordinate taxa
C. arietinum
Synonyms Nochotta
Name authority Linnaeus: Sp. Pl. 2: 738. (1753): Gen. Pl. ed. 5, 327. (1754)
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