Higher Classification: > Kingdom Plantae > Division Tracheophyta > Subdivision Spermatophytina > Class Magnoliopsida > Superorder Rosanae > Order Fabales > Family Fabaceae > Tribe Loteae > Genus Hippocrepis

Hippocrepis comosa L.

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Hippocrepis*	L.	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Hippocrepis comosa subsp. macedonica*	(Degen & Urum.) Kožuharov	synonym
*Hippocrepis perennis*	Lam.	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Horseshoe Vetch sources: Stace, C. - New Flora Of The British Isles. Cambridge Univ. Press 1991.

French: Fer-a-cheval; Hippocrepis A Toupet sources: Bonnier G. & Layens G. - Flore Complete Portative de la France de la Suisse Et... 1970.

German: Hufeisenklee sources: Rothmaler W. & al. - Exkursionsflora Fur Die Gebiete Der DDR Und Der BRD. Bd. 2. 1988.

Russian: Gippokrepis Kosmatyi; Podkovnik Khokhlatyi sources: Gorschkova, S. G. - In: Flora URSS, Vol. 13. Moscow, Leningrad. (Rus) 1948.;Vassiljeva, L. I. - In Flora Partis Europaeae URSS. Vol. 6. Leningrad. (Rus). 1987.

Spanish, Castillian: ceja real; quebrantaherraduras sources: Anthos (2010). Information System of the plants of Spain. Real Jardín Botánico, CSIC - Fundación Biodiversidad. (for names from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands).