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Taxon: Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek

Genus: Vigna subgenus: Ceratotropis
Family: Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae) subfamily: Faboideae tribe: Phaseoleae subtribe: Phaseolinae. Also placed in: Papilionaceae
Nomen number: 41629
Place of publication: Flore du Congo Belge et Ruanda-Urundi 6:386. 1954
Name verified on: 22-Jul-1987 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 11-Mar-2004
Species priority site is: Plant Genetic Resources Conservation Unit, Griffin, GA (S9).
Accessions: 779 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions. or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • only available ) NPGS core subset accessions for the crop ‘VIGNA’ ) or .
  • Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.


See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • celera-bean   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  • golden gram   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English   [Vigna radiata var. radiata]
  • green gram   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Vigna radiata var. radiata]
  • Jerusalem-pea   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English   [Vigna radiata var. sublobata]
  • mung-bean   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English   [Vigna radiata var. radiata]
  • ambérique   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Vigna radiata var. radiata]
  • haricot doré   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 1:71. 19) – French   [Vigna radiata var. radiata]
  • haricot mungo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French   [Vigna radiata var. radiata]
  • Mungbohne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German   [Vigna radiata var. radiata]
  • fagiolo mungo   (Source: Mult Glossary Crops ) – Italian   [Vigna radiata var. radiata]
  • nogdu   (Source: F Korea ) – Transcribed Korean   [Vigna radiata var. radiata]
  • frijol mungo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Vigna radiata var. radiata]
  • judía mung   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish   [Vigna radiata var. radiata]
  • mungböna   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish   [Vigna radiata var. radiata]

Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    China: China [s.]
  • ASIA-TROPICAL
    Indian Subcontinent: India; Sri Lanka
    Indo-China: Indochina
    Malesia: Indonesia; Papua New Guinea

      Naturalized:
  • AUSTRALASIA
    Australia: Australia [n. (natzd.?)]
  • naturalized elsewhere in paleotropics

      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated in paleotropics

References:

  • PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource).
  • 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).
  • Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
  • Berhaut, J. 1971–. Flore illustrée du Senegal.
  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
  • Boudet, G. et al. 1986. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali.
  • Brunel, J. F. et al., eds. 1984. Flore analytique du Togo. Phanerogames.
  • Budanova, V. I. 1982. Novoe i sistematike rodov Phaseolus L. i Vigna Savi. (Some new data on the systematics of the genera Phaseolus L. and Vigna Savi.). Trudy Prikl. Bot. 72:18.
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
  • Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
  • Green, J. W. 1985. Census of the vascular plants of Western Australia.
  • Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
  • Huang, S. F. & T. C. Huang. 1987. Taxonomic treatment of the Papilionoideae (Leguminosae) of Taiwan. Taiwania 32:11-117.
  • Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
  • International Seed Testing Association. 1982. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 1. Field crops, grasses and vegetables, ed. 2.
  • Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
  • 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 28:209.
  • Matthew, K. M. 1983. The flora of the Tamilnadu Carnatic.
  • McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
  • Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:133.
  • Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
  • Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
  • Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223.
  • Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
  • Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes.
More:

Synonyms:


Check other web resources for Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek:

  • AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
  • 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:

More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google 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.
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