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Internal ID UUID643fdf158e409469410801
Scientific name Hippocrepis comosa
Authority L.
First published in Sp. Pl.: 744 (1753)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Hippocrepis comosa subsp. macedonica (Degen & Urum.) Kozuharov Fl. Nar. Republ. Bulgariya6: 230 (1976)
Coronilla comosa (L.) Prantl Exkurs.-Fl. Bayern: 368 (1884)
Hippocrepis alpestris Arv.-Touv. Essai Pl. Dauphiné: 25 (1871)
Hippocrepis burgalensis Sennen Butl. Inst. Catalana Hist. Nat.32: 114 (1932)
Hippocrepis helvetica G.Don J.C.Loudon, Hort. Brit.: 308 (1830)
Hippocrepis heterocarpa Sennen Bull. Soc. Bot. France73: 646 (1926 publ. 1927)
Hippocrepis montgronyana Sennen & Pau É.M.G.Sennen, Fl. Catal.: 54 (1917)
Hippocrepis rolandi Sennen Bull. Soc. Bot. France73: 646 (1926 publ. 1927)
Hippocrepis comosa subvar. microphylla Rouy G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France5: 303 (1899)
Hippocrepis comosa var. alpestris (Arv.-Touv.) Rouy G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France5: 304 (1899)
Hippocrepis comosa var. alpina Rouy G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France5: 304 (1899)
Hippocrepis comosa var. broteana Hrabetová Práce Morav.-Slez. Akad. Ved Prír.21(4): 23 (1949)
Hippocrepis comosa var. burgalensis (Sennen) Hrabetová Práce Morav.-Slez. Akad. Ved Prír.21(4): 22 (1949)
Hippocrepis comosa var. lignescens Hrabetová Práce Morav.-Slez. Akad. Ved Prír.21(4): 24 (1949)
Hippocrepis comosa var. major Rouy G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France5: 303 (1899)
Hippocrepis comosa var. prostrata Boiss. Voy. Bot. Espagne2: 185 (1840)
Hippocrepis comosa var. rolandi (Sennen) Hrabetová Práce Morav.-Slez. Akad. Ved Prír.21(4): 22 (1949)
Hippocrepis rolandi var. macrocarpa Sennen Exsicc. (Pl. Esp.)1926: n.° 5709 (1926)
Hippocrepis comosa prol. prostrata (Boiss.) Rouy G.Rouy & J.Foucaud, Fl. France5: 304 (1899)
Hippocrepis perennis Lam. Fl. Franç. 2: 657 (1779)
Hippocrepis atlantica Durieu ex Munby Cat. Pl. Algeria : 10 (1859)
Hippocrepis comosa var. macedonica Degen & Urum. Magyar Bot. Lapok 10: 111 (1911)

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Language Common/alternative name
English horseshoe-vetch
English horseshoe vetch
English horse shoe vetch
English horse-vetch
Spanish herraduras
Spanish hierba de la herradura
Arabic حدوة الحصان طويلة الشعر
Bulgarian обикновена конска подкова
Catalan desferracavalls
Czech podkovka chocholatá
Welsh ffacbysen bedol
Danish gul hestesko
German gewöhnlicher hufeisenklee
German hufeisenklee
German schopfiger hufeisenklee
Finnish nystyhevonpalko
French fer a cheval
French hippocrépide en ombelle
French fer à cheval
Upper Sorbian Čećorička
Italian sferracavallo comune
Dutch paardenhoefklaver
Polish konikleca czubata
Slovak podkovka chochlatá
Slovenian navadna podkvica
Swedish hästskoklöver
Turkish katırkuyruğu
Chinese 多叶马蹄豆

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  • Europe
    • Eastern Europe
      • Krym
      • Ukraine
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      • Austria
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      • Czechoslovakia
      • Germany
      • Hungary
      • Netherlands
      • Switzerland
    • Northern Europe
      • Great Britain
    • Southeastern Europe
      • Albania
      • Bulgaria
      • Greece
      • Italy
      • Romania
      • Yugoslavia
    • Southwestern Europe
      • France
      • Sardegna
      • Spain

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000213796
USDA Plants HICO3
Tropicos 13049818
INPN 102842
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:498352-1
The Plant List ild-8859
Open Tree Of Life 363610
Observations.org 6868
NCBI Taxonomy 390710
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000003278
Nature Serve 2.134711
IUCN Red List 19892450
IPNI 498352-1
iNaturalist 133488
GBIF 5353750
Freebase /m/07h03t
EPPO HPCCO
EOL 703956
USDA GRIN 19168
Wikipedia Hippocrepis_comosa

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Land‐use affects pollinator‐specific resource availability and pollinator foraging behaviour Birkenbach M, Straub F, Kiesel A, Ayasse M, Wilfert L, Kuppler J Ecol Evol 07-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10918743
doi:10.1002/ece3.11061
PMID:38455145
The nutritional dimension of facultative bacterial symbiosis in aphids: Current status and methodological considerations for future research Renoz F Curr Res Insect Sci 20-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10787254
doi:10.1016/j.cris.2023.100070
PMID:38222793
Do Poisonous Plants in Pastures Communicate Their Toxicity? Meta-Study and Evaluation of Poisoning Cases in Central Europe Aboling S Animals (Basel) 08-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10740430
doi:10.3390/ani13243795
PMID:38136831
The genome sequence of the Adonis blue, Lysandra bellargus (Rottemburg, 1775) Lohse K, Hayward A, Vila R, Howe C Wellcome Open Res 12-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC10090861
doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18330.1
PMID:37065725
Diverse in Local, Overlapping in Official Medical Botany: Critical Analysis of Medicinal Plant Records from the Historic Regions of Livonia and Courland in Northeast Europe, 1829–1895 Prakofjewa J, Anegg M, Kalle R, Simanova A, Prūse B, Pieroni A, Sõukand R Plants (Basel) 13-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9032843
doi:10.3390/plants11081065
PMID:35448792
Differentiation of natural scrub communities of the Cotoneastro-Amelanchieretum group in Central Europe Świerkosz K, Reczyńska K PLoS One 12-Apr-2022
PMCID:PMC9004749
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0266868
PMID:35413069
Soil Seed Bank Persistence Across Time and Burial Depth in Calcareous Grassland Habitats Mašková T, Poschlod P Front Plant Sci 04-Feb-2022
PMCID:PMC8854790
doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.790867
PMID:35185951
An unknown hotspot of plant diversity in the heart of the Central Apennine: flora and vegetation outline of Mt. Pozzoni-St. Rufo valley (Cittareale, Rieti) Lattanzi E, Del Vico E, Tranquilli R, Farris E, Marignani M, Rosati L PhytoKeys 31-May-2021
PMCID:PMC8390790
doi:10.3897/phytokeys.178.62947
PMID:34475797
Contribution to the Orophilous Cushion-Like Vegetation of Central-Southern and Insular Greece Musarella CM, Brullo S, del Galdo GG Plants (Basel) 30-Nov-2020
PMCID:PMC7760968
doi:10.3390/plants9121678
PMID:33266088
Sexual differences in age-dependent survival and life span of adults in a natural butterfly population Sielezniew M, Kostro-Ambroziak A, Kőrösi Á Sci Rep 25-Jun-2020
PMCID:PMC7316833
doi:10.1038/s41598-020-66922-w
PMID:32587296
Southwest Asian cereal crops facilitated high-elevation agriculture in the central Tien Shan during the mid-third millennium BCE Motuzaite Matuzeviciute G, Hermes TR, Mir-Makhamad B, Tabaldiev K PLoS One 20-May-2020
PMCID:PMC7239473
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0229372
PMID:32433686
Pollinator specialization increases with a decrease in a mass‐flowering plant in networks inferred from DNA metabarcoding Pornon A, Baksay S, Escaravage N, Burrus M, Andalo C Ecol Evol 30-Sep-2019
PMCID:PMC6953672
doi:10.1002/ece3.5531
PMID:31938472
Different effects of alpine woody plant expansion on domestic and wild ungulates Espunyes J, Lurgi M, Büntgen U, Bartolomé J, Antonio Calleja J, Gálvez-Cerón A, Peñuelas J, Claramunt-López B, Serrano E Glob Chang Biol 28-Feb-2019
PMCID:PMC6522367
doi:10.1111/gcb.14587
PMID:30737872
Effects of temperature on the cuticular transpiration barrier of two desert plants with water-spender and water-saver strategies Bueno A, Alfarhan A, Arand K, Burghardt M, Deininger AC, Hedrich R, Leide J, Seufert P, Staiger S, Riederer M J Exp Bot 30-Jan-2019
PMCID:PMC6416792
doi:10.1093/jxb/erz018
PMID:30715440
Seasonal diet composition of Pyrenean chamois is mainly shaped by primary production waves Espunyes J, Bartolomé J, Garel M, Gálvez-Cerón A, Fernández Aguilar X, Colom-Cadena A, Calleja JA, Gassó D, Jarque L, Lavín S, Marco I, Serrano E PLoS One 23-Jan-2019
PMCID:PMC6343923
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0210819
PMID:30673757

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