Phaseolus coccineus coccineus

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Click on the language to view common names.

Description

Genus Phaseolus

Herbs or subshrubs , erect , prostrate or climbing . Leaves stipulate , stipules persistent , not prolonged below the point of insertion ; pinnately trifoliolate , rarely unifoliolate . Inflorescence axillary , falsely racemose, the flowers in fascicles along the rachis; bracts and bracteoles present. Calyx 5-lobed, 2-lipped; upper lip emarginate , bifid, lower lip 3-lobed. Vexillum round , auriculate , with 2 appendages or with only slight appendages at the side of the claw and a transverse constriction above or with none; wings often following the spiral of the keel; keel often narrow, elongated, the apex beaked and forming the spiral of 1-5 complete turns . Stamens diadelphous , 9+1; anthers subuliform or 5 dorsifixed alternating with 5 basifixed . Ovary 2-many ovuled; style tenuous below, the upper part artilaginous and thickened, curved through 360º, the upper portion glabrous or hairy inside; stigma oblique on the inner side of the style apex or sometimes terminal and subterminal , not penicillate . Pod linear or oblong , compressed or subcylindrical , sometimes beaked. Seeds 3-many, oblong or reniform .

Verdcourt (l.c.) has recently redefined the generic limits of the genus Phaseolus. In this revised and restricted sense the genus contains c.50 species, predominantly American.[1]

Physical Description

Habitat

Typically found at an altitude of 0 to 4,653 meters (0 to 15,266 feet).[2]

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 6-9" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Phaseolus coccineus L. • Phaseolus coccineus Lam. • Phaseolus multiflorus Willd. var. coccineus (L.) Dc.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Phaseolus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 2382 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

P. acutifolius (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius var. acutifolius (Wild Tepary Bean of Semi-Sunny Habitats) · P. acutifolius var. latifolius (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Big Fields Brown' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Black' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Colonia Morelos Speckled' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Colonia Morelos White' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Cumpas' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Dark Yellow' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Durango' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Guarijio White' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Hopi White' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Kickapoo White' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Light Brown' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Little Tucson Brown' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Mayo White Aluvia' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Mitla Black' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Paiute Mixed' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Paiute Yellow' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Pima Beige & Brown' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Pinacate' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Redfield' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Sacaton Brown' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Sacaton White' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Santa Rosa' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'San Felipe Pueblo White' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'San Ignacio' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'San Pablo Balleza' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'San Pablo Balleza White' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Sonoran Brown' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Sonoran Golden' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Sonoran White' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Tohono O'odham Brown' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Tohono O'odham White' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Virus-Free Yellow' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Warihio' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Yaqui' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Yoeme Brown' (Tepary Bean) · P. acutifolius 'Yoeme White' (Tepary Bean) · P. angustissimus (Narrowleaf Bean) · P. caracalla (Bertoni Bean) · P. coccineus (Haricot á Fleurs Rouges) · P. coccineus coccineus (Chamborote) · P. coccineus formosus (Chamborote) · P. coccineus L. 'Hestia' (Dwarf Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Achievement' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Achievement Merit' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Aleppo Arab' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Apricot' (Scarlet Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Armstrong' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Aztec Half-Runner' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Barnett' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Best of All' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Blackcoat' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Black' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Black Knight' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Black Night' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Bonds' Orca Lima' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Bulgarian' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Butler' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Buton' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Cave Bean' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Chandler Scarlet' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Cherokee Butterbean' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Crochu De Montmagny' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Crusader' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Cypriot Speckled' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Czar' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Desiree' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Don Collis' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Dwarf Scarlet Bees' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Emergo' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Emergo Stringless' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Enorma' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Enorma Elite' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Erecta' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Esparot' (Dwarf Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Fat White Boys' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Fergie' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Flamenco' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Flare' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Galaxy' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'German' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Goliath' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Grammy Tilley' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Granny's Scarlet Runner' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Heike's German' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Hestia' (Dwarf Runner Bean 'hestia') · P. coccineus 'Hungarian Red' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Ivanhoe' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Jack and the Beanstalk' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Japanese' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Jerusalem' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Judia' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Kelvedon Marvel' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Lady Di' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Liberty' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Meienbohne' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Mergoles' (Runner Bean) · P. coccineus 'Moonlight' (Bean (Runner) 'moonlight')

More Info

• Search for Pictures: images.google.com
• Search for Scholarly Articles: Google Scholar
• Search using Scientific Name and Vernacular Names: All the Web | AltaVista Canada | AltaVista | Excite | Google | HotBot | Lycos
• Search using Specialized Databases: GenBank | Medline | Scirus | CISTI/CAL | Agricola Periodicals | Agricola Books

Further Reading

• Baudet. 1977. Origine et classification des espèces cultivées du genre Phaseolus. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 110:69.
• Budanova & Ivanov. 1973. K sistematike roda Phaseolus L. (To the sistematics of the genus Phaseolus L.). Trudy Prikl. Bot. 51:28.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Freytag, G. F. & D. G. Debouck. 2002. Taxonomy, distribution, and ecology of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae-Papilionoideae) in North America, Mexico and Central America. Sida, Bot. Misc. 23:55–98.
• Leitão, H. F. 1974. Contribuição ao estudo taxonômico do gênero Phaseolus L. no Brasil. Bragantia 33:62.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 1:56.
• Malezasdemexico. Malezas de México - on-line resource. (Malezas Mex)
• Maréchal, R. et al. 1978. Étude taxonomique d'un groupe complexe d'espèces des genres Phaseolus et Vigna (Papilionaceae) sur la base données morphologiques et polliniques, traitées par l'analyse informatique. Boissiera 28:137.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana. (F NGalicia)
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future. (Trop Leg)
• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur) [cultivated].
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed March 27, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed January 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• ILDIS World Database of Legumes. Release date: May 1, 2007
• Nghia, N.H. 1998. Dalbergia entadoides. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Nielsen IC & Rico ML, 1994 (from ILDIS).
• Pippen, Jeffrey S. Jeff's Nature Page. Accessed December 8, 2007.
• Podlech D, 1996 (from ILDIS).
• Polhill RM, 1993 (from ILDIS).
• Rhytismatales database 2006.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• Schrire BD, 1994-10 (from ILDIS).
• Sokoloff DD, 2001-03 (from ILDIS).
• Stirton CH, 2001-06 (from ILDIS).
• The Global Lepidoptera Names Index2, 12.2, 2005.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
• The Virtual Field Herbarium.
• Thomson, Christian (from Diptera).
• USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL (April 30, 2008)
• USDA, NRCS. 2005. The PLANTS Database, Version 3.5 (http://plants.usda.gov). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA.
• Vaz AMSF, 2001-05 (from ILDIS).
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. Adenanthera intermedia. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• van der Maesen LJG, 1993 (from ILDIS).
• van der Maesen, LJG, 2001-03 (from ILDIS).

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2650979
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-15222
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13666932
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 26845
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: PHMU7
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3498158

Footnotes

1. "Phaseolus". in Flora of Pakistan Page 239. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Mean = 989.100 meters (3,245.079 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,297.390 based on 352 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

©2004-2012 David Stang. All rights reserved.