Hippocrepis

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Fabales

Familia: Fabaceae
Subfamilia: Faboideae
Tribus: Loteae
Genus: Hippocrepis
Species: H. areolata – H. atlantica – H. balearica – H. biflora – H. bornmulleri – H. bourgaei – H. brevipetala – H. carpetana – H. ciliata – H. commutata – H. comosa – H. constricta – H. cyclocarpa – H. emerus – H. eriocarpa – H. frutescens – H. glauca – H. liouvillei – H. minor – H. monticola – H. multisiliquosa – H. neglecta – H. rupestris – H. salzmannii – H. scabra – H. scorpioides – H. squamata – H. toletana – H. unisiliquosa – H. valentina

Name

Hippocrepis L., Sp. Pl. 2: 744. (1753)

Type species: Hippocrepis unisiliquosa L.

Synonyms

Emerus Mill.
Ferrum-equinum Tourn. ex Medik.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Eurasia, Macaronesia to Arabian Peninsula
Albania, Algeria, Austria, Baleares, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Chad, Corse, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, East Aegean Is., Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Gulf States, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kriti, Krym, Kuwait, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Madeira, Mauritania, Morocco, North Caucasus, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Romania, Sardegna, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Western Sahara, Yugoslavia
Extinct in:
Netherlands
Introduced into:
California, Denmark

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References
Primary references

Linnaeus, C. 1753. Species Plantarum. Tomus II: 744. Reference page.

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Hippocrepis. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 11. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Hippocrepis. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 11 2019.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Hippocrepis in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 11. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2019. Hippocrepis. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 11.

Vernacular names
العربية: حدوة الحصان
čeština: podkovka
dansk: Hestesko
English: Horseshoe Vetches
suomi: Hevonpalot
hornjoserbsce: Čećorička
polski: Konikleca
slovenčina: podkovka
svenska: Hästskoväpplingssläktet

Hippocrepis is a genus of ornamental plants in the family Fabaceae.
Etymology

The name "Hippocrepis" comes from the Greek for "horse" (hippo-) and for "shoe" (-krepis): literally, "horseshoe"; this is descriptive of the shape of the fruit segments in some species .[1]
Species

Notable species include (along with their common names[2]):

Hippocrepis emerus, or scorpion senna.
Hippocrepis comosa, or horseshoe vetch.

References

"Hippocrepis". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
BSBI List 2007 (xls). Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Archived from the original (xls) on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2014-10-17.