Vicia

Annual, biennial or perennial herbs; stems terete, trailing, erect or climbing. Leaves alternate, mostly paripinnate, subsessile, terminating in a tendril (in Victoria) or bristle; leaflets few-many, linear, oblong or elliptic, entire, cuneate at base; stipules linear, lanceolate or semi-sagittate, entire or toothed. Inflorescence axillary; flowers 1–many in pedunculate racemes; bracts small, caducous. Calyx cylindric or campanulate, 5-toothed, regular or oblique at apex, teeth about as long as tube, more or less equal or upper 2 partly connate; petals blue, purple or yellow, clawed; standard obovate or oblong, emarginate; wings obovate or oblong, usually adhering to keel; keel obtuse; stamens diadelphous, anthers uniform; ovary subsessile, style terete or compressed, pilose or with a hair tuft at apex, stigma terminal, ovules 2–many. Pod terete or linear and compressed, more or less straight, continuous within, dehiscent; seeds arillate.