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Vigna grahamiana

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Identification
Dolichos subcarnosus Wight & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Vigna grahamiana (Wight & Arn.) Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Vigna grahamiana
  • Dolichos subcarnosus

Flora

Entry for WAJIRA grahamiana (Wight & Arn.) Thulin & Lavin [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin (Acacia by M. Thulin, A. S. Hassan & B. T. Styles) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
WAJIRA grahamiana (Wight & Arn.) Thulin & Lavin [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (2004);
Phaseolus grahamianus Wight & Arn. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1834);. [type as above]
Vigna grahamiana (Wight & Arn.) Verdc. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1970). [type as above]
Phaseolus schimperi Taub. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1892) non Vigna schimperi Bak.
Phaseolus macrorhynchus Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1900);
Vigna macrorhyncha (Harms) Milne-Redh. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1936). [type as above]
Vigna proboscoidella Chiov. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1911).
Information
Perennial trailing or twining herb, rarely slightly woody; stems subglabrous or sparsely pubescent with retrorse hairs. Leaflets linear-lanceolate to ovate, 1.2–9 x 0.3–6.5 cm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, with ± obscure venation not forming a raised reticulum. Inflorescences ± lax; rhachis 1.5–20 cm long, including up to 14 cm long peduncle. Calyx glabrous or almost so; tube 2–3 mm long; lobes triangular, up to 3 mm long. Standard pale purple inside, dull purple or greenish outside, 0.9–1.6 cm long; keel with the beak incurved through almost a circle. Ovary mostly 10–16-ovulate; style with rigid curved upper part laterally flattened and with unbranched hairs on the inner edge of the upper c. 3 mm. Pods 50–140 x 3–4 mm, almost straight to upcurved at the apex, glabrous, 8–15-seeded. Seeds with hilum c. 1–1.5 mm long.
Range
N1; S3 widespread in tropical Africa, also in Saudi Arabia and southern Asia.
Altitude range
100–1400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Wood S/73/52; Moggi, Tardelli & Bavazzano 212.
Distribution (external)
Sudan
Ethiopia
Notes
This was treated as Vigna macrorhyncha in vol. 1: 437 (1993), but is now a member of an expanded Wajira.

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