Vicia megalotropisLedeb.

WFO wfo-0000186175 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 7 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 7 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Vicia megalotropis, photographed by Marina Potapova
fig. a Marina Potapova, CC0 1.0 / 2022-06-11 / obs. 205375248
Vicia megalotropis, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. b Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 145760585
Vicia megalotropis, photographed by Нурхайдарова Татьяна
fig. c Нурхайдарова Татьяна, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87269807
Vicia megalotropis, photographed by Marina Potapova
fig. d Marina Potapova, CC0 1.0 / obs. 205375258
Vicia megalotropis, photographed by Марина Садыкова
fig. e Марина Садыкова, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 87101805
Vicia megalotropis, photographed by Oleg Kosterin
fig. f Oleg Kosterin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89586133
Vicia megalotropis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. g Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129846715
Vicia megalotropis, photographed by Nina Filippova
fig. h Nina Filippova, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 129836470

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Native range 13 botanical countries

Regions where Vicia megalotropis is native: Altay, China North-Central, China South-Central, Inner Mongolia, Irkutsk, Kazakhstan, Krasnoyarsk, Mongolia, Tibet, Tuva, West Siberia, Xinjiang, Yakutiya AltayChina North-CentralChina South-CentralInner MongoliaIrkutskKazakhstanKrasnoyarskMongoliaTibetTuvaWest SiberiaXinjiangYakutiya
Native distribution of Vicia megalotropis, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Altay ALT ASIA-TEMPERATE
China North-Central CHN
China South-Central CHC
Inner Mongolia CHI
Irkutsk IRK
Kazakhstan KAZ
Krasnoyarsk KRA
Mongolia MON
Tibet CHT
Tuva TVA
West Siberia WSB
Xinjiang CHX
Yakutiya YAK

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 5 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ervum megalotropis (Ledeb.) Trautv.
  • Ervum megalotropis var. multicaulis Trautv.
  • Vicia davurica Willd. ex Ledeb.
  • Vicia humilis R.R.He
  • Vicia megalotropis f. stenophylla Franch.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.