{{short description|Species of flowering plant}} {{speciesbox | image = Վավիլովիա1.jpg | taxon = Lathyrus formosus | authority = (Steven) Kenicer (2021)<ref name = powo/> | subdivision_ranks = Varieties | subdivision_ref = <ref name="ILDIS">{{cite web | url = http://www.ildis.org/AliceWeb/6.00/taxa/18598.shtml | title = ILDIS LegumeWeb entry for ''Vavilovia'' | author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | website = International Legume Database & Information Service | publisher = Cardiff School of Computer Science & Informatics | access-date = 9 November 2016}}</ref> | subdivision = *''Lathyrus formosus'' var. ''formosus'' <small>(Stev.) Al. Fed.</small> *''Lathyrus formosus'' var. ''pubescens'' <small>Townsend</small> | synonyms = *''Lathyrus frigidus'' {{small|Schott & Kotschy (1856)}} *''Orobus formosus'' {{small|Steven (1813)}} *''Orobus formosus var. microphyllus'' {{small|Ser. (1825)}} *''Pisum aucheri'' {{small|Jaub. & Spach (1842)}} *''Pisum formosum'' {{small|(Steven) Alef. (1861)}} *''Pisum formosum var. pubescens'' {{small|C.C.Towns. (1967 publ. 1968)}} *''Pisum frigidum'' {{small|Alef. (1860)}} *''Vavilovia aucheri'' {{small|Fed. (1939)}} *''Vavilovia formosa'' {{small|(Steven) Fed. (1939)}} | synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77222325-1 ''Lathyrus formosus'' (Steven) Kenicer]. ''Plants of the World Online''. Retrieved 9 August 2023.</ref> }}
'''''Lathyrus formosus''''' is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae. It is an herbaceous perennial which grows primarily in high mountain areas on shale or rocky ground in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, and the Caucasus.<ref name="Kew"/><ref name="ILDIS"/><ref name="AgroAtlas">{{cite web | url = http://www.agroatlas.ru/en/content/related/Vavilovia_formosa | title = ''Vavilovia formosa'' | author = <!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> | date = 2009 | website = Interactive Agricultural Ecological Atlas of Russia and Neighboring Countries—Economic Plants and their Diseases, Pests and Weeds | publisher = AgroAtlas | access-date = November 9, 2016}}</ref>
The species was described as ''Orobus formosus'' in 1812, and has been known by several other names until being reclassified as ''Lathyrus formosus'' in 2021.<ref name = powo/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Mikić A, Smýkal P, Kenicer G, Vishnyakova M, Sarukhanyan B, Akopian J, Vanyan A, Gabrielyan I, Smýkalová I, Sherbakova E, Zorić L, Atlagić J, Zeremski-Škorić T, Ćupina B, Krstić Ð, Jajić I, Antanasović S, Ðorđević V, Mihailović V, Ivanov A, Ochatt S, Ambrose M | title = The bicentenary of the research on 'beautiful' vavilovia (''Vavilovia formosa''), a legume crop wild relative with taxonomic and agronomic potential | journal = Bot J Linn Soc | volume = 172 | issue = 4 | year = 2013 | pages = 524–531 | doi = 10.1111/boj.12060| doi-access = free | url = http://fiver.ifvcns.rs/bitstream/123456789/1218/1/1215.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=12661 | title = GRIN species records of ''Vavilovia'' | author = USDA | author-link = USDA | author2 = ARS | author2-link = Agricultural Research Service | author3 = National Genetic Resources Program | website = Germplasm Resources Information Network—(GRIN) [Online Database] | publisher = National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland | access-date = 9 November 2016}}</ref> The synonym ''Vavilovia'' was named after the Russian geneticist, economic botanist, and plant geographer, Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov.<ref name="Kew">{{cite web | url = http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/research-data/resources/legumes-of-the-world/genus/vavilovia | title = ''Vavilovia'' | website = Legumes of the World | publisher = Kew Royal Botanic Gardens | access-date = November 9, 2016}}</ref>
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