Taxon: Phaseolus maculatus Scheele

• valid publication verified from original literature
• non Phaseolus maculatus Mart. (1829), nom. nud.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Phaseolus maculatus subsp. maculatus (1 accessions)
• Phaseolus maculatus subsp. ritensis (23 accessions)

Common names:

• Metcalfe bean   (Source: Dict Econ Pl ) – English
  
• prairie bean   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Gene sources: disease resistance for Lima bean   (fide Pl Res SEAs, as P. metcalfii)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of Lima bean   (fide Syst Bot 31:787. 2006, based on affinities of the Polystachyos group to the Lunatus clade)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - New Mexico [s.w.], Texas
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - Arizona [s.e.]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Zacatecas
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Nayarit, Puebla, Queretaro, Tlaxcala

References:

• Debouck, D. G. 1999. Diversity in Phaseolus species in relation to the common bean. In: Singh, S. P., ed., Common bean improvement in the Twenty-first Century. 2:25–52.
• Delgado-Salinas, A. et al. 2006. Phylogeny of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae): a recent diversification in an ancient landscape. Syst. Bot. 31:779–791.
• Delgado-Salinas, A. 1985. Systematics of the genus Phaseolus (Leguminosae) in North and Central America. 217.
• 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. 23:254–260.
• Isely, D. 1998. Native and naturalized Leguminosae (Fabaceae) of the United States (exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii).
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland.
• 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). 1:59. [cites P. metcalfii Wooton & Standl.].
• 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 28:145. [= P. ritensis M. E. Jones].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2.
• Vibrans, H., ed. Malezas de México (on-line resource).
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Phaseolus maculatus.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Phaseolus maculatus.

Synonyms:

• Phaseolus metcalfei Wooton & Standl. [= Phaseolus maculatus subsp. maculatus]
  (previously associated with 11 accessions)
• Phaseolus ovatifolius Piper [= Phaseolus maculatus subsp. maculatus]
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• Phaseolus retusus Benth. [= Phaseolus maculatus subsp. maculatus]
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• Phaseolus ritensis M. E. Jones [≡ Phaseolus maculatus subsp. ritensis]
  (previously associated with 28 accessions)

Check other web resources for Phaseolus maculatus Scheele:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ILDIS: World Database of Legumes
• 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.
• GRIN nodulation data

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• 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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