Taxon: Vigna caracalla (L.) Verdc.

Common names:

• bertoni-bean   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• snailflower   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• haricot caracolle   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Schneckenbohne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• caracol   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• caracolillo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• judía caracol   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• snäckböna   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico [s.?]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala; Panama
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Peru
  Southern South America: Paraguay; Uruguay

• also cultivated

References:

• 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).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. [= Phaseolus c. L.].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption.
• Lewis, G. P. 1987. Legumes of Bahia.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• 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 28:226.
• 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.
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Vigna caracalla.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Vigna caracalla.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Vigna caracalla.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Phaseolus caracalla L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 13 accessions)

Check other web resources for Vigna caracalla (L.) Verdc.:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• 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.
• Seeds: 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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