Taxon: Phaseolus coccineus L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus (5 accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. argenteus (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. coccineus (21 accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. condensatus (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. griseus (2 accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. lineatibracteolatus (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. parvibracteolatus (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. pubescens (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. semperbracteolatus (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. splendens (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. strigillosus (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. tridentatus (1 accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. zongolicensis (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. striatus (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. striatus var. guatemalensis (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. striatus var. minuticicatricatus (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. striatus var. pringlei (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. striatus var. purpurascens (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. striatus var. rigidicaulis (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. striatus var. striatus (no accessions)
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. striatus var. timilpanensis (no accessions)

Common names:

• multiflora bean   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – English
  
• runner bean   (Source: Federal Seed Act ) – English
  
• scarlet runner bean   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• he bao dou   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• haricot d'Espagne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Feuerbohne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• fagiolo die Spagna   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• hana-sasage   (Source: F Okin ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• bulgeungangnamkong   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  
• feijão-da-Espanha   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• feijão-trepador   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• ayocote   (Source: Edible HC ) – Spanish   [Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. coccineus]
  
• cubá   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• judía encarnada   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• judía pinta   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• pilay   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• rosenböna   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: disease resistance for common bean   (fide Euphytica 130:312. 2003, citing hybrids with P. vulgaris selected for resistance to bean golden mosaic virus)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of common bean   (fide Euphytica 130:312. 2003)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of tepary bean   (fide J Heredity 55:5. 1964, based on reports of hybridization with P. acutifolius)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Phaseolus coccineus from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Federal District, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro, Tlaxcala, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Costa Rica - Alajuela; El Salvador - Chalatenango; Guatemala - Chimaltenango, Escuintla, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Quezaltenango, Sacatepequez, San Marcos, Solola, Suchitepequez, Zacapa; Honduras - Francisco Morazan; Nicaragua - Jinotega, Matagalpa

• widely cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
• Federal Seed Act and Regulations, Agricultural and Vegetable Kind Lists, United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch.
• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Baudet, J. C. 1977. Origine et classification des espèces cultivées du genre Phaseolus. Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique 110:69.
• Budanova, V. I. & N. R. 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.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Escalante, A. M. et al. 1994. Genetic structure and mating systems in wild and cultivated populations of Phaseolus coccineus and P. vulgaris (Fabaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 81:1096–1103.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• 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.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Leitão, H. F. 1974. Contribuição ao estudo taxonômico do gênero Phaseolus L. no Brasil. Bragantia 33:62.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1:56.
• Mahuku, G. S. et al. 2003. Sources of resistance to angular leaf spot (Phaeoisariopsis griseola) in common bean core collection, wild Phaseolus vulgaris and secondary gene pool. Euphytica 130:303–313.
• 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.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:116.
• National Academy of Sciences. 1979. Tropical legumes: resources for the future.
• 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.
• Schmit, V. et al. 1993. Use of chloroplast DNA polymorphisms for the phylogenetic study of seven Phaseolus taxa including P. vulgaris and P. coccineus. Theor. Appl. Genet. 87:506–516.
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. [cultivated].
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• 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 Phaseolus coccineus.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Phaseolus coccineus.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Phaseolus coccineus.

Synonyms:

• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. formosus (Kunth) Maréchal et al. [= Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. coccineus]
  (previously associated with 22 accessions)
• "Phaseolus coccineus subsp. griseus (Piper) A. Delgado, nom. inval." [≡ Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. griseus]
  
• Phaseolus coccineus subsp. obvallatus (Schltdl.) Maréchal et al. [= Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. coccineus]
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• Phaseolus formosus Kunth [= Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. coccineus]
  (previously associated with 16 accessions)
• Phaseolus griseus Piper [≡ Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. griseus]
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• Phaseolus leiosepalus Piper [= Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. coccineus]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Phaseolus multiflorus Lam. [= Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. coccineus]
  (previously associated with 10 accessions)
• Phaseolus obvallatus Schltdl. [= Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. coccineus]
  
• Phaseolus striatus Brandegee [≡ Phaseolus coccineus subsp. striatus var. striatus]
  
• "Phaseolus striatus var. purpurascens Freytag, nom. inval." [= Phaseolus coccineus subsp. striatus var. striatus]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Phaseolus strigillosus Piper [≡ Phaseolus coccineus subsp. coccineus var. strigillosus]
  

Check other web resources for Phaseolus coccineus L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• Seeds or fruits: Seed ID Workshop image, from Department of Horticulture and Crop Science, Ohio State University
• 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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