Taxon: Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.

Common names:

• Congo-pea   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – English
  
• pigeon-pea   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• red gram   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• yellow dhal   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• ambrévade   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 1:39.) – French
  
• pois d'Angole   (Source: Leg WorldEc ) – French
  
• Straucherbse   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• arhar   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• tuver   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – India
  
• feijão-guandu   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• guandú   (Source: Edible HC ) – Portuguese
  
• guisante-de-Angola   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• cachito   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• gandul   (Source: Edible HC ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: agroforestry; shade/shelter; soil improver   (fide Pl Res SEAs 1:40. 1989)
  
• Human food: pulse; vegetable   (pods and seeds fide Pl Res SEAs 1:39-40. 1989)
  
• Animal food: fodder; potential as forage   (fide Agric Res USDA 46(2). 1998; Pap AU Wagen 85-4:91. 1985)
  
• Fuels: fuelwood   (fide Firewood Cr)
  
• Invertebrate food: silkworms; lac/wax insects   (fide Pl Res SEAs 1:40. 1989)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• widely cultivated

• origin India

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) - on-line resource. (PROTABASE)
• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam. (F CambLVN)
• Correa, J. E. & H. Y. Bernal. 1992. Especies vegetales promisorias de los paises del Convenio Andres Bello. (Esp Veg Prom) 8:66–105.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance. (Leg WorldEc)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Hackett, C. & J. Carolane. 1982. Edible Horticultural Crops. (Edible HC)
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal. (L Nepal)
• Jha, S. S. & D. Ohri. 1996. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 43:275–281.
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 1:39.
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der. 1985. Cajanus and Atylosia W. & A. (Leguminosae). Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 85–4:1–225.
• Maesen, L. J. G. van der. 1986. Cajanus and Atylosia W. & A. (Leguminosae). Agric. Univ. Wageningen Pap. 85–4:65.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. (Food Feed Crops US)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• National Academy of Sciences. 1980. Firewood crops. Shrub and tree species for energy production. (Firewood Cr)
• Nicolson, D. 1975. Taxon 24:390. [= C. cajan (L.) Huth].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Smith, A. C. 1979–1991. Flora vitiensis nova. (F Viti)
• Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952–. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr)
• Woodson, R. E. & R. W. Schery, eds. 1943–1980. Flora of Panama. (F Panama)

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Synonyms:

• (=) Cajanus bicolor DC.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (≡) Cajanus flavus DC.
  
• (≡) Cajanus indicus Spreng.
  (previously associated with 317 accessions)
• (≡) Cytisus cajan L. (basionym)
  

Check other databases for Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.:

• ILDIS: International Legume Database & Information Service
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images or nodulation data:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
• 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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