Lentils ( lat. Lens ) is a genus of herbaceous plants of the legume family ( Fabaceae ), including several species from the Mediterranean , Asia Minor , Transcaucasia, and Central Asia .
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Lens culinaris Medik. 1787 [2] , nom. nov. - Lentil food | |||||||||||||||||||||||
In culture - one species: Lentil edible ( Lens culinaris ), a valuable drought-resistant food and fodder legume crop , a food product that is popular in the Middle East and in many other countries of the world.
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Botanical description
Lentil food. Botanical illustration from the book of O. V. Tome Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz , 1885
Low-growing herbaceous plants.
Stem strongly branched.
The leaves are pinoperous, successive.
The flowers are small, white or bluish.
Fruit - short, flattened on both sides of the bean , containing one to three seeds .
Lentil food. Seeds
Types and subspecies
The genus includes seven species [3] :
- Lens culinaris Medik. typus [2] - food lentils , or lentils ordinary , or lentils cultural .
- Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris
- Lens culinaris subsp. odemensis ( Ladiz. ) MEFerguson et al.
- Lens culinaris subsp. orientalis ( Boiss. ) Ponert
- Lens culinaris subsp. tomentosus ( Ladiz. ) MEFerguson et al.
- Lens ervoides ( Brign. ) Grande
- Lens himalayensis Alef.
- Lens kotschyana ( Boiss. ) Nab.
- Lens lamottei Czefr.
- Lens montbretii ( Fisch. & CAMey. ) PHDavis & Plitm.
- Lens nigricans ( M.Bieb. ) Godr.
Notes
- ↑ About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .
- ↑ 1 2 Information about the genus Lens (eng.) In the Index Nominum Genericorum database of the International Plant Taxonomy Association (IAPT) .
- ↑ The Plant List : Lens
Literature
- Lentils, moth plants // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extras). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Lentils, in agriculture // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 tons (82 tons and 4 extra). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- Lentil - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
- All about medicinal plants in your beds / Ed. S. Yu. Radelova. - SPb. : SZKEO LLC, 2010. - p. 191. - 224 p. - ISBN 978-5-9603-0124-4 .
Links
- Lens (English) : information about the taxon on the site Tropicos .