Taxon: Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. subsp. unguiculata

See other conspecific taxa:

• Vigna unguiculata (1190 accessions)
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. baoulensis (no accessions)
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. burundiensis (no accessions)
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. cylindrica (20 accessions)
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. dekindtiana (40 accessions)
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. letouzeyi (no accessions)
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. mensensis (no accessions)
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. pubescens (9 accessions)
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. sesquipedalis (194 accessions)
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. stenophylla (5 accessions)
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. tenuis (no accessions)

Common names:

• black-eyed-pea   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• cowpea   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• crowder-pea   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• southern-pea   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• jiang dou   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• haricot indigène   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• niébé   (Source: Pl GR Newsl 96:32.) – French
  
• pois à vaches   (Source: Pl GR Newsl 96:32.) – French
  
• Augenbohne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• fagiolino dall'occhio   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• vigna cinese   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian
  
• sasage   (Source: F Okin ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• costeño   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• frijol de costa   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• rabiza   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Pl Res SEAs, as V. unguiculata Unguiculata Group; Cover Crop Database)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Pl Res SEAs, as V. unguiculata Unguiculata Group)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Pl Res SEAs, as V. unguiculata Unguiculata Group)
  
• Animal food: forage   (fide Pl Res SEAs, as V. unguiculata Unguiculata Group)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2, as Vigna unguiculata)
  

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View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• widely cultivated in tropics & subtropics

References:

• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. P. 1:77 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). [= V. unguiculata Unguiculata Group].
• 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 28:191. [includes subspp. cylindrica & sesquipedalis].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• Nuez, F. et al. 1993. Recolección de especies hortícolas en Ecuador. Pl. Genet. Resources Newslett. 96:32.
• 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.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. UC SAREP on-line cover crop database (on-line resource).
• Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

Synonyms:

• (=) Dolichos sinensis L.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Dolichos unguiculatus L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (≡) Phaseolus unguiculatus (L.) Piper
  
• (=) Vigna sinensis (L.) Savi ex Hassk.
  (previously associated with 980 accessions)

Check other web resources for Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. subsp. unguiculata:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops

Images or nodulation data:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• 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

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• 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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