Editing Cicer (section)

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
{{more footnotes|date=March 2013}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Cicer arietinum HabitusFruitsFlowers BotGardBln0906.jpg
| image_alt = the cultivated annual chickpea Cicer arietinum
| image_caption = the cultivated annual chickpea ''[[Cicer arietinum]]''
| display_parents = 5
| parent_authority = Alef.
| taxon = Cicer
| authority = [[Carl Linnaeus|L.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision_ref = <ref name=powo/>
| subdivision = 45; see text
| range_map = Cicer distribution map.png
|synonyms = ''Nochotta'' {{small|S.G.Gmel. (1774)}}
|synonyms_ref = <ref name = powo>[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:22016-1 ''Cicer'' L.] ''[[Plants of the World Online]]''. Retrieved 15 August 2023.</ref>
}}

'''''Cicer''''' is a genus of the [[legume]] family, [[Fabaceae]], and the only genus found in tribe '''Cicereae'''. It is included within the [[Inverted repeat-lacking clade|IRLC]], and its native distribution is across the [[Middle East]] and [[Asia]]. Its best-known and only [[Domestication|domesticated]] member is ''[[Cicer arietinum]]'', the chickpea.