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|accepted_name=Vicia benghalensis
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 736. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Purple vetch
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=W
|label=Weedy
}}{{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Vicia atropurpurea
|authority=Desfontaines
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Fabaceae;Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae;Vicia;Vicia benghalensis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Fabaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Vicia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Vicia benghalensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 11
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs </b>annual or biennial. <b>Stems</b> sprawling or climbing, slender, 10–20 dm. <b>Leaves</b> 3–6 cm; tendrils branched; stipules much smaller than leaflets, semisagittate, without nectariferous patch; leaflets 10–16, blades ovate-oblong to linear, 10–30 × 4–9 mm, apex obtuse, surfaces villous. <b>Inflorescences</b> 2–12-flowered, 3–12 cm, equal to subtending leaf rachis. <b>Flowers</b> 13–18 mm; calyx base gibbous, lobes unequal, usually equal to tube; corolla white at base, purple apically, banner pandurate, blade shorter than or equal to claw, glabrous; style compressed adaxially, pubescent apically. <b>Legumes</b> tawny, narrowly oblong, 25–35 × 8–12 mm, oblique-tipped, densely villous; stipe to 1–2 mm. <b>Seeds</b> 4 or 5, velvety black with prominent white hilum, compressed-subglobose, 4–5 mm diam.; hilum encircling 1/5 circumference of seed. <b>2n</b> = 14.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–May.
|habitat=Disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=s Asia;introduced also in s South America.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Vicia benghalensis is cultivated as a cover crop along the Pacific Coast; it has become established in California. It can be distinguished from V. villosa by its pubescent fruits.</p>
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name=Vicia benghalensis
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Vicia atropurpurea
|basionyms=
|family=Fabaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–May.
|habitat=Disturbed areas.
|elevation=0–200 m.
|distribution=s Asia;introduced also in s South America.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Weedy;Introduced
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/master/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V11/V11_2180.xml
|subfamily=Fabaceae subfam. Faboideae
|genus=Vicia
|species=Vicia benghalensis
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