Vella L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 342

96. Vella L. 2

Small, much-branched shrubs with sessile, entire leaves; hairs unbranched. Flowers in lax, spicate racemes. Sepals erect; petals long-clawed, yellow, sometimes violet-veined; filaments of inner stamens connate in pairs. Fruit a transversely articulate silicula; the lower segment 2-valved, ellipsoidal, subdidymous; valves convex, 3-veined; the upper segment sterile, strongly compressed, in the form of a foliaceous, Ungulate beak, 5-veined.

Literature: O. E. Schulz, Pflanzenreich 84 (IV. 105): 44-7

(1923).

30-100cm, spineless, with obovate leaves; raceme with 10-35 flowers 1. pseudocytisus

10-30 cm, very spiny, caespitose, with narrowly lanceolate leaves; racemes with 3-5 flowers 2. spinosa