# Lathyrus formosus

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{{short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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| 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](/source/Plants_of_the_World_Online)''. Retrieved 9 August 2023.</ref>
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'''''Lathyrus formosus''''' is a species of [flowering plant](/source/flowering_plant) in the [legume](/source/legume) family, [Fabaceae](/source/Fabaceae). It is an herbaceous perennial which grows primarily in high mountain areas on shale or rocky ground in [Turkey](/source/Turkey), [Iran](/source/Iran), [Iraq](/source/Iraq), [Lebanon](/source/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](/source/Botanical_Journal_of_the_Linnean_Society) | 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](/source/Germplasm_Resources_Information_Network)—(GRIN) [Online Database] | publisher = [National Germplasm Resources Laboratory](/source/Henry_A._Wallace_Beltsville_Agricultural_Research_Center), 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](/source/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](/source/Kew_Royal_Botanic_Gardens) | access-date = November 9, 2016}}</ref> 

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