Taxon: Macroptilium lathyroides (L.) Urb.

Common names:

• phasemy-bean   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• phasey-bean   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 4:158.) – English
  
• da yi dou   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• Phasemybohne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• nanban-akabana-azuki   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• frijolito de los arrozales   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pico de aura   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Harmful organism host: crop diseases   (fide Phytopathology 93:774-783. 2003)
  
• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Pl Res SEAs 4:158. 1992)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Leg Queensl)
  
• Weed: potential seed contaminant   (in Australia fide Atlas WWeed)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua; Bahamas; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominica; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Jamaica; Martinique; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis - St. Kitts; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; Guatemala; Nicaragua; Panama
  Northern South America: French Guiana; Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador; Peru
  Southern South America: Argentina; Paraguay

• widely cultivated in tropics

References:

• 't Mannetje, L. & R. M. Jones, eds. 1992. Forages. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 4:158.
• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica.
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Barbosa-Fevereiro, V. P. 1987. Macroptilium (Bentham) Urban do Brasil (Leguminosae - Faboideae - Phaseoleae - Phaseolinae). Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 28:133.
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
• Brako, L. & J. L. Zarucchi. 1993. Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 45.
• Burkart, A. E. 1952. Las leguminosas Argentinas - silvestres y cultivadas, ed. 2.
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Hacker, J. B. 1990. A guide to herbaceous and shrub legumes of Queensland.
• Holm, L. et al. 1979. A geographical atlas of world weeds.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
• Idris, A. M. et al. 2003. Two newly described begomoviruses of Macroptilium lathyroides and common bean. Phytopathology 93:774–783.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• Lewis, G. P. & P. E. Owen. 1989. Legumes of the Ilha de Maraca.
• Lewis, G. P. 1987. Legumes of Bahia.
• Liogier, H. A. & L. F. Martorell. 1982. Flora of Puerto Rico and adjacent islands: a systematic synopsis.
• 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 28:152.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos (on-line resource).
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. [cultivated].
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Macroptilium lathyroides.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Macroptilium lathyroides.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Macroptilium lathyroides.

Synonyms:

• (=) Macroptilium lathyroides var. lathyroides
  (previously associated with 39 accessions)
• (=) Macroptilium lathyroides var. semierectum (L.) Urb.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (≡) Phaseolus lathyroides L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 16 accessions)
• (=) Phaseolus semierectus L.
  (previously associated with 12 accessions)
• (=) Phaseolus semierectus var. angustifolius Benth.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Macroptilium lathyroides (L.) Urb.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images or nodulation data:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• GRIN nodulation data

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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