Changes

*Chickpea, Bengal gram, gram, garbanzo (En). *Pois chiche (Fr). *Grão de bico, gravanço, ervanço (Po). *Mdengu (Sw).

*Spreading to erect, annual herb up to 100 cm tall; stem simple or branched from the base; taproot reaching 1–2 m depth, secondary roots mostly spreading in the top 15–30 cm soil layer. *Leaves alternate, imparipinnate, with (7–)11–15(–17) leaflets; stipules 2–5-fid, ovate to triangular, 3–5 mm × 2–4 mm; rachis 2.5–8 cm long, grooved above; leaflets sessile, ovate to elliptical, 5–20 mm × 2–15 mm, the upper two-thirds of the margins sharply toothed, glandular pubescent on both sides. *Inflorescence reduced to a single axillary flower; peduncle 3–20(–37) mm long; bracts 1–3, linear to triangular, up to 3 mm long. *Flowers bisexual, papilionaceous; pedicel 3–12 mm long, recurved at fruiting; calyx campanulate, tube 3–4 mm long, teeth lanceolate, 4–5 mm long, with prominent midribs; corolla white, pink, purplish or blue, standard obovate, 8–10 mm × 7–10(–17) mm, with a broad claw, wings obovate, 6–9 mm × c. 4 mm, auriculate, keel 6–8 mm × c. 3 mm with a 2–3 mm long claw; stamens 10, 9 united for 4–5 mm and 1 free, anthers basi-dorsifixed; ovary superior, sessile, ovate, 2–3 mm × 1–1.5 mm, 1-celled, style incurved, 3–4 mm long, stigma small. *Fruit an inflated rhomboid-ellipsoid pod 12–35 mm × 8–20 mm, densely glandular pubescent, 1–2(–4)-seeded. *Seeds globular to angular obovoid, 5–14 mm × 4–10 mm, with a median groove and a conspicuous beak overhanging the hilum, creamy to brown, green or black, surface smooth or wrinkled. *Seedling with hypogeal germination; the first two leaves scale-like.

* G. Bejiga, Green Focus Ethiopia, P.O. Box 802, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Green Focus Ethiopia, P.O. Box 802, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia * L.J.G. van der Maesen , Biosystematics Group, Wageningen University, Gen. Foulkesweg 37, 6703 BL Wageningen, Netherlands

Bejiga, G. & van der Maesen, L.J.G., 2006. '''Cicer arietinum''' L. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Brink, M. & Belay, G. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>.