Vigna mungo

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Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Genus Vigna

Climbing , prostrate or erect herbs or subshrubs , rarely small shrubs . Leaves pinnately trifoliolate ; stipules bilobed or spurred at the base or not spurred, stipels generally present. Inflorescence axillary or terminal , falsely racemose or flowers in dense 1-many flowered subumbellate clusters ; rachis usually thickened and glandular at the point of insertion of pedicels; bracts and bracteoles ± deciduous. Calyx 5-lobed, 2-lipped; upper lip of 2 lobes completely or partly united , lower lip 3-lobed. Vexillum with inflexed auricles and 2-4 appendages or rarely appendages absent; keel truncate , obtuse or beaked , sometimes the beak incurved through up to 360°. Stamens diadelphous 9+1, anthers uniform . Ovary 3-many ovuled; style with tenuous lower part obsolete or quite long, filiform or flattened, upper part thickened and cartilaginous , straight or curved , upper portion barbate or hirsute on inner side, sometimes produced beyond the stigma to form a short to long subulate or rarely flattened or capitate beak; stigma completely lateral , oblique or rarely ± terminal. Pod linear or linear oblong, cylindrical or flattened, straight or curved. Seeds mostly reniform or quadrate ; aril obsolete to well developed, often 3-pronged.

A large genus with c. 150 species, throughout the tropics of both hemispheres.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Reproduction

Duration: Annual

Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Azukia mungo (L.) Masam. • Azukia mungo (L.)masam. • Phaseolus hernandezii Savi • Phaseolus mungo L. • Phaseolus roxburghii Wight & Arn.

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Climbing : Not climbing, Conservation Status: Cultigen not known in the wild, Habit: Herb, Lifespan: Annual

Last scrutiny: Jun-2001

Similar Species

Members of the genus Vigna

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 229 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

V. mungo (Soya Bean) · V. aconitifolia (Mat Bean) · V. aconitifolia 'Mother Bean' (Mat Bean) · V. adenantha (Pipi) · V. angularis (Adzuki Bean) · V. angularis var. angularis (Cultivated Azuki) · V. angularis 'Late Tamba' (Adzuki Bean) · V. antillana (Antilles Bean) · V. caracalla (Bertoni Bean) · V. dalzelliana (Dalzell Bean) · V. dalzelliana var. dalzelliana (Wild Dalzell Bean) · V. hosei (Sarawak Bean) · V. juruana (Tropical Cowpea) · V. longifolia (Longleaf Cowpea) · V. luteola (Deer Pea) · V. marina (Beach Bean) · V. minima (Cowpea) · V. minima minima (Cowpea) · V. mungo (Black Gram) · V. o-wahuensis (Hawaii Wild Bean) · V. owahuensis (Oahu Cowpea) · V. peduncularis (Purple Cowpea) · V. radiata (Amberique) · V. radiata var. radiata (Mung Bean) · V. radiata var. setulosa (Wild Mung Bean) · V. radiata var. sublobata (Mung Bean) · V. riukiuensis (Assam Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Akasanjaku' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Ay Black' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Bang Bua Tong' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Black Eye' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Black Seeded Snake Bean' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Black Stripe Seed' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Brown Seeded Snake Bean' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Canton White' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Chian' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Chinese' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Cuban Black Twiner' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Doris' Snake Bean' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Dwarf Brown Seeded' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Dwarf Snake Bean' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Green Arrow' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Johnnies' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Kaohsiung' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Katmandu' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Katsang Panjang Snake Bean' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Ko Men' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Kurojuroku' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Liana' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Long White Snake' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Malasian Brown-Seeded' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Metro Noir' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Metro Rouge' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Mosaic' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Negro 5 Star No.3' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'No Name Snake Bean' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Orient Extra Long' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Orient Wonder' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Phai Kwang' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Purple Mart' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Red Noodle' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Red Seeded Snake Bean' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Red Stripe Seed' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Sabah Snake' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Semi Climber' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Sj' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Stickless Wonder' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Tsu In' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'White Seed' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Wong' (Asparagus Bean) · V. sesquipedalis 'Yardlong Black' (Asparagus Bean) · V. speciosa (Prairie Vetch) · V. subterranea (Bambara) · V. trilobata (Math Bean) · V. umbellata (Red Rice Bean) · V. umbellata var. umbellata (Climbing-Mountain-Bean) · V. unguiculata (Asparagus Bean) · V. unguiculata aduensis (Cowpea) · V. unguiculata alba (Cowpea) · V. unguiculata cylindrica (Catjang) · V. unguiculata dekindtiana (Blackeyed Pea) · V. unguiculata pawekiae (Cowpea) · V. unguiculata sesquipedalis (Yardlong Bean) · V. unguiculata unguiculata (Southern Pea) · V. unguiculata 'African' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Alston Purple Hull' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Bettergreen' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Bettergrow' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Bettersnap' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Big Boy' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Bisbee Black' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Bisbee Red' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Blackeye' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Black' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Black Crowder' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Blue Fava' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Bohemian' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Botswana Blackeye' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Brown Crowder' (Cow Pea) · V. unguiculata 'Brown Seeded Chosi' (Cow Pea)

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Further Reading

• Flora Vitiensis nova: a new Flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only) / Albert C. Smith. Lawaii, Hawaii: Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, 1979- url p. 239, p. 241, p. 242.
• World Atlas of Biodiversity: earth's living resources in the 21st century UNEP-WCMC url p. 250.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 11, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 27, 2008:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• International Plant Genetic Resources Institute(IPGRI), EURISCO

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ILD-2243
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13630020
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:74585-3
• GRIN Nomen Number: 444359
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 506273
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: PHMU8
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 54322

Footnotes

1. "Vigna". in Flora of Pakistan Page 242. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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