Changes

*Grass pea, chickling pea, chickling vetch, white pea (En). *Gesse, gesse blanche, gesse commune, pois carré, lentille d’Espagne (Fr). *Chícharo, chícharo comun, sincho (Po).

*Much-branched, erect, straggling or climbing, glabrous annual herb; stem slender, quadrangular, winged, up to 90(–170) cm long; taproot well-developed. *Leaves alternate, 2- or 4-foliolate, ending in a simple or branched tendril; stipules prominent, leaf-like, narrowly triangular, with a smaller but similarly shaped basal appendage and often with a small tooth between the lobes; petiole mostly winged, (1–)1.5–2.5(–3.5) cm long; leaflets sessile, narrowly elliptical-oblong, (3–)4–5(–7.5) cm × 3–5(–13) mm, cuneate at base, acute or acuminate at apex. *Flowers solitary in leaf axils, bisexual, papilionaceous, pedicel with joint, lower part (1–)3–3.5 (–5) cm long, upper part (2–)5–7(–8) mm long; calyx campanulate, tube c. 3 mm long, lobes 5, almost equal, narrowly triangular, 3–6 mm long; corolla blue, reddish-purple, red, pink or white, standard erect and spreading, very broadly obovate, c. 15 mm × 18 mm, clawed, retuse at top, wings broadly obovate, c. 14 mm × 8 mm, clawed, with auricle, keel slightly twisted, boat-shaped, c. 10 mm × 7 mm, clawed, with 2 auricles; stamens 10, 9 united and 1 free; ovary superior, sessile, c. 6 mm long, style abruptly upturned, c. 7 mm long, stigma spoon-shaped. *Fruit an oblong, flattened pod (1.5–)2.5–4.5(–5.5) cm × 0.5–2 cm, upper margin 2-winged, shortly beaked, glabrous, (1–)2–5(–7)-seeded. *Seeds wedge-shaped, 4–7 mm in diameter, white, pale green, grey or brown, marbled; hilum elliptical. *Seedling with hypogeal germination.

* S.S. Yadav, Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India

Division of Genetics, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India * G. Bejiga , Green Focus Ethiopia, P.O. Box 802, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Yadav, S.S. & Bejiga, G., 2006. '''Lathyrus sativus''' 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>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.