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Etymology of Vicia angustifolia: The Latin name of the genus, "Vicia", meaning "binder", derives from Proto-Italic "wikia", which in turn originates other from Proto-Indo-European "weyk-", meaning "to curve, bend" or from Proto-Indo-European "wehy- ". The name "binder" alludes to the activity of the tendrils. "Angusta" in Latin means "narrow" and "folia" means "leaf", referring to its narrow leaves.
At least 26 Vicia species and subspecies/kinds have so far been identified in the wild Cypriot habitat, of which two of them appear exclusively in occupied northern Cyprus.
The characteristic of this species is the vivid pink flowers that are whiter on the back of the petal. It grows all around Cyprus at an altitude of up to 1525 metres. In Cyprus, it usually blooms from January till April.
How to identify Vicia angustifolia:
- Its inflorescence is sessile or subsessile in the leaf axil, or very shortly pedunculate, the peduncle, (or pedicel) is generally shorter than the calyx and corolla.
- The petals are mostly pink
- It is a plant sprawling or climbing; its stems are slender, weak; the leaflets are obovate
- The standard is more than 8 mm long; seeds with a smooth, not papillose, testa
- The calyx-teeth are narrowly subulate, 3-8 mm long; the stipules are often rather large and toothed or laciniate
- The leaves are 2-10 foliolate; leaflets usually with an emarginate apex; flowers subsessile or very shortly pedicellate
- It is a plant with aerial stems only, all pods conspicuously longer
- The corolla is 8-18 mm long; the calyx-teeth are shorter than the tube
- The flowers are usually violet, commonly paired in the upper axils