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Dolichos sinensis

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Identification
Dolichos sinensis Forssk., non L. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Vigna luteola (Jacq.) Benth. [family FABACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by F.N. Hepper, 1985 Dolichos niloticus Delil. [family FABACEAE ] Verified by Johan Lange, 1859
Related name
  • Neonotonia wightii
  • Glycine aggregata
  • Glycine javanica
  • Vigna luteola
  • Neonotonia longicauda
  • Dolichos sinensis
  • Dolichos niloticus

Flora

Entry for Vigna unguiculata L. Walp. [family LEGUMINOSAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 3, Part 5, (2001) Author: B. Mackinder, R. Pasquet, R. Polhill and B. Verdcourt
Names
Phaseolus cylindricus L. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Herb. Amboin.: 23 (1754). Type from Indonesia.
Dolichos sinensis L. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Cent. Pl. 2: 28 (1756). Type from Indonesia.
Dolichos catjang Burm.f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Fl. Ind.: 161 (1768). Based on type of Phaseolus cylindricus L.
Vigna catjang Burm.f. Walp. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Linnaea 13: 533 (1839) nom. illegit. —Dietrich, Syn. Pl. 4: 1197 (1847). —Harvey in F.C. 2: 239 (1862).
Vigna sinensis L. Hassk. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Cat. Pl. Hort. Bogor.: 279 (1844). —J.G. Baker in F.T.A. 2: 204 (1871). —Taubert in Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas C: 223 (1895). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 409 (1929). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal, part 2: 421 (1932).
Vigna unguiculata subsp. cylindrica L. Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Kew Bull. 24: 544 (1970); F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 644 (1971); in Kew Bull. 31: 836 (1977).
Vigna unguiculata L. Walp. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Repert. Bot. Syst. 1: 779 (1843). —Dietrich, Syn. Pl. 4: 1197 (1847). —Piper in U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Bull. No. 229 (1912); in U.S.D.A. Bur. Pl. Industr. Circ. 124: 29 (1913). —Wilczek in F.C.B. 6: 387, t. 30 (1954). —Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 569 (1958). —Torre in C.F.A. 3: 269 (1966). —Verdcourt in Kew Bull. 24: 542 (1970). —A. Schreiber in Merxmüller, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afrika, fam. 60: 123 (1970). —Verdcourt in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 642 (1971). —Westphal, Pulses in Ethiopia: 213 (1974). —Maréchal, Mascherpa & Stainier in Boissiera 28: 191 (1978). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 447 (1989). —Pienaar in S. African J. Bot. 58: 417 (1992). —Mithen in Kirkia 14: 101 (1993). Type from Barbados, neotype from Ethiopia chosen by Westphal.
Dolichos unguiculatus L. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Sp. Pl.: 725 (1753).
Information
Annual or perennial erect trailing or climbing herb, 0.5–3 m long. Stem striate, glabrous, scabrous, pubescent or hairy. Leaflets 3, 1.5–16.5 × 1–12.5 cm, ovate, rhombic or lanceolate to linear, the laterals oblique, all entire or terminal leaflets subhastate to deeply 3-lobed at the base and laterals lobed on the outer margin, shortly acuminate or subacute and mucronulate, acute to rounded at the base, glabrous to pubescent on both surfaces; petiole 1.5–13 cm long; rhachis 0.6–2.5 cm long; stipules submedifixed, constricted at the point of attachment, multinerved, upper part lanceolate, 6–20 mm long, spur narrower, 2–6 mm long. Peduncle 2–36 cm long. Flower pink to purple, rarely white (mainly within var. unguiculata cultivar-group Melanophthalmus), 15–33 mm long; pedicel 1–3 mm long, not expanding as the pod matures; bracteoles 3–6 mm long, spathulate or lanceolate, 1–3-nerved. Calyx glabrous or pubescent; tube 2–5.5 mm long; lobes subequal, ciliolate, the upper pair joined for about half their length to form a broad lobe bifid at the apex or only at the base. Standard with 2 parallel widely spaced appendages. Pod 8–10 × 2.5–5 mm (except within cultivated races), linear-cylindrical, glabrous, scabrous, or pubescent. Seed 4–6.5 × 2–4.5 mm (except within cultivated races); hilum one third to half the longest dimension, excentric; rim aril slightly developed.

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