Species · Fabaceae

Chickpea

Cicer arietinum. Fabaceae, genus Cicer. What this plant is called and where it is recorded, plus the published numbers the keystone holds so far.

Rank
species
Names
67 in 39 languages
Numbers
3 (3 with a source)
Keystone status
partial

Names

No scientific synonyms are recorded for this name.

English: Bengal Gram, Chick Pea, Chickpea, Garbanzo, Garbanzo Bean, Gram.

In other languages

  • Afrikaans: Kekerert
  • Arabic: حمص شائع
  • Basque: garbantzua
  • Belarusian: Нут культурны
  • Chinese: ying zui dou, 回回豆, 鹰嘴豆
  • Croatian: Slanutak
  • Czech: cícer baraní, cizrna beraní
  • Danish: Kikært
  • Dutch: Keker, Kikkererwt
  • Finnish: kahviherne, kikherne, kikkahviherne
  • French: Cicer tete de belier, Pois chiche, Pois chiche, Tête-de-bélier, Pois-chiche
  • Galician: Garavanzo
  • German: Kichererbse, Kirchererbse
  • Greek: revythia
  • Hebrew: חמצה (תרבותי)
  • Hungarian: termesztett bagolyborsó
  • Italian: Cece
  • Japanese: シロヒヨコマメ, ヒヨコマメ, 雛豆
  • Lithuanian: nutas
  • Luxembourgish: käicher
  • Norwegian (Bokmål): bukk-ert, bukkert, kikert
  • Norwegian (Nynorsk): kikert, bukk-ert, bukkert
  • Polish: Ciecierzyca pospolita
  • Portuguese: grão-de-bico
  • Russian: Нут бараний
  • Slovak: cícer baraní
  • Slovene: čičerika
  • Spanish: garbanzo blanco
  • Swedish: kikärt
  • Thai: ถั่วลูกไก่, ถั่วหัวช้าง
  • Turkish: Nohut
  • Ukrainian: Нут звичайний
  • Welsh: Gwygbys, Gwygbysen
  • mar: हरभरा
  • mlt: ċi
  • nor: kikert
  • pan: But
  • sin: කඩල

Names with no language recorded: chickpea, garbancera, garbanzo, paaricomitin, ying zui dou.

Where it is recorded

Taxonomy record sources: GBIF (CC BY 4.0), USDA_PLANTS_CATALOG (Public Domain). Loaded from the botanica open cultivated-plant knowledge base and the GBIF backbone; each row keeps its origin.

What the sources say it wants

Each line shows the band, then the kind of source and the citation. "Published" means the number is printed on the cited page; "derived" means it was computed from published numbers with the formula recorded on the row; "external API" rows are refreshed nightly from a live source; "curated" rows are OAT's own working values from June 2026.

Whole cycle

ZoneMeasureBandSource
TimingCrop coefficient, end of season (ratio)0.35published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
TimingCrop coefficient, initial stage (ratio)0.4published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
TimingCrop coefficient, mid-season (ratio)1published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998

Cultivar groups with their own numbers

The species row above carries the species-level bands. These groups differ enough in the sources that they keep their own rows.

Grabanzo

  • Crop coefficient, end of season (ratio): 0.35 published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
  • Crop coefficient, initial stage (ratio): 0.4 published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998
  • Crop coefficient, mid-season (ratio): 1.15 published: FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, 1998

Keystone status

Partial. The KEEP rule asks for a growth stage and a band in each of light, air and root zone before a crop counts as complete; this plant is in the keystone with what its sources give so far.

Generated 2026-09-15 from the OAT plant keystone. Source types and citations are carried on every row; the keystone snapshot that the Library instruments read is plant-targets.json and its quality sheet is plant-targets.quality.json.