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

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. stenophylla (5 accessions)
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. tenuis (no accessions)
• Vigna unguiculata subsp. unguiculata (6892 accessions)

Common names:

• asparagus-bean   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• Chinese long-bean   (Source: Food Feed Crops US ) – English
  
• pea-bean   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – English
  
• yard-long-bean   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• lobiya   (Source: F Egypt ) – Arabic
  
• chang jiang dou   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• dolique asperge   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• haricot asperge   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Spargelbohne   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• feijão-espargo   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• judía espárrago   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: soil improver   (fide Pl Res SEAs, as V. unguiculata Sesquipedalis Group)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (pods and leaves fide Pl Res SEAs, as V. unguiculata Sesquipedalis Group)
  
• Animal food: fodder   (fide Pl Res SEAs, as V. unguiculata Sesquipedalis Group)
  

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View phytochemical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Africa
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India
  Indo-China: Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia; Malaysia; Philippines
• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• also cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Boulos, L. 1999–. Flora of Egypt.
• 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).
• Hara, H. Flora of eastern Himalaya. v. 1:1966, v. 2:1971, v. 3:1975 [= V. unguiculata var. sesquipedalis (L.) H. Ohashi].
• Kongjaimun, A. et al. 2012. The genetics of domestication of yardlong bean, Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. ssp. unguiculata cv.-gr. sesquipedalis. Ann. Bot. (Oxford) doi:10.1093/aob/mcs048.
• Kumar, S & P. V. Sane. 2003. Legumes of South Asia: a checklist.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Lock, J. M. & C. S. Ford. 2004. Legumes of Malesia: a checklist.
• Lock, J. M. & J. Heald. 1994. Legumes of Indochina: a checklist.
• 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). 1:77. [= V. unguiculata Sesquipedalis 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 28:193. [= V. unguiculata subsp. unguiculata cultigroup Sesquipedalis].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• 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.
• Sanjappa, M. 1992. Legumes of India.
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 8:274–278.
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova.
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa.
• Verdcourt, B. 1979. A manual of New Guinea legumes.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zhu, X. Y. et al. 2007. Legumes of China: a checklist.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Dolichos sesquipedalis L. (basionym)
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• (≡) Vigna sesquipedalis (L.) Fruwirth
  (previously associated with 124 accessions)
• (≡) Vigna sinensis subsp. sesquipedalis (L.) Van Eselt.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

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

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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
• 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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