Name
Identification
Vigna repens Baker [family FABACEAE ]
Related name
- Vigna repens
Flora
Entry for Vigna luteola Jacq. Benth. [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
Vigna luteola Jacq. Benth. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Martius, Fl. Bras. 15: 194, t. 50, fig. 2 (1859). —Harvey in F.C. 2: 241 (1862). —J.G. Baker in F.T.A. 2: 205 (1871). —Taubert in Engler, Pflanzenw. Ost-Afrikas C: 223 (1895). —Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 5: 384 (1916). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 401 (1929). —Burtt Davy, Fl. Pl. Ferns Transvaal, part 2: 421 (1932). —Wilczek in F.C.B. 6: 363 (1954). —Hepper in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 1: 569 (1958). —Torre in C.F.A. 3: 266 (1966). —Binns, First Check List Herb. Fl. Malawi: 86 (1968). —Richards & Morony, Check List Fl. Mbala & Distr.: 126 (1969). —Verdcourt in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 625 (1971). —Drummond in Kirkia 8: 228 (1972). —J.H. Ross, Fl. Natal: 208 (1973). —Maréchal, Mascherpa & Stainier in Boissiera 28: 165 (1978). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 443 (1989). Type based on Jacq., Hort. Bot. Vindob. t. 90, drawn from a plant grown in Vienna from seed collected in tropical America.
Dolichos repens L. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Syst. Nat., ed. 10: 1163 (1759); Pl. Jam. Pugill.: 19 (1759). Type from Jamaica.
Dolichos luteolus Jacq. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Hort. Bot. Vindob. 1: 39, fig. 90 (1770).
Dolichos luteus Sw. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 105 (1788). Type from Jamaica.
Dolichos niloticus Delile [family LEGUMINOSAE], Fl. Egypt E: 253, pl. 38 (1814). Type from Egypt.
Dolichos emarginata P. Beauv. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Fl. Oware 2: 85 (1820). Type from Benin.
Scytalis helicopus var. major E.Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Comment. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 146 (1836). Type from South Africa.
Scytalis helicopus var. minor E.Mey. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Comment. Pl. Afr. Austr.: 146 (1836). Type from South Africa.
Vigna helicopus E. Mey. Walp. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Linnaea 13: 534 (1839).
Dolichos helicopus E.Mey. Steud. [family LEGUMINOSAE], Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 523 (1840).
Vigna nilotica Delile Hook.f. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Hooker, Niger Fl.: 311 (1849). —J.G. Baker in F.T.A. 2: 204 (1871). —Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 5: 384 (1916). —Hutchinson & Dalziel, F.W.T.A. 1: 409 (1928). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 404 (1929). —Brenan in Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 8: 410 (1954). —Binns, First Check List Herb. Fl. Malawi: 86 (1968). —Richards & Morony, Check List Fl. Mbala & Distr.: 127 (1969).
Vigna oblonga [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu Hook.f. in Hooker, Niger Fl.: 308 (1849) non Benth. —sensu J.G. Baker in F.T.A. 2: 206 (1871). —sensu E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 402 (1929).
Vigna lutea Sw. A. Gray [family LEGUMINOSAE], Bot. Wilkes U.S. Expl. Exped. 1: 452 (1854).
Vigna repens L. Kuntze [family LEGUMINOSAE], Rev. Gen. Pl.: 212 (1891) non Baker, nom. illegit.
Vigna luteola var. angustifolia B.L. Rob. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 27: 167 (1892). Type from Mexico.
Vigna luteola var. villosa Micheli [family LEGUMINOSAE], in T. Durand & De Wild., Mat. Fl. Congo 2: 7 (1898). —Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 5: 384 (1916).
Vigna fischeri Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 310 (1899). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 404 (1929). —Wilczek in F.C.B. 6: 378 (1954). —Richards & Morony, Check List Fl. Mbala & Distr.: 126 (1969). —Verdcourt in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 627 (1971). —Maréchal, Mascherpa & Stainier in Boissiera 28: 166 (1978). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 442 (1989). Type from Kenya.
Vigna holstii Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 311 (1899). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 404 (1929). Type from Tanzania.
Vigna bukobensis Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 30: 92 (1901). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 401 (1929). Syntypes from Tanzania and Dem. Rep. Congo.
Vigna mildbraedii Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Mildbraed, Wiss. Ergebn. Deutsch. Zentr.-Afrika-Exped., Bot. 2: 269 (1911). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 401 (1929). —Wilczek in F.C.B. 6: 358 (1954). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 444 (1989). Type from Rwanda.
Vigna jaegeri Harms [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 49: 449 (1913). —E.G. Baker, Legum. Trop. Africa: 400 (1929). —Verdcourt in F.T.E.A., Leguminosae, Pap.: 663 (1971). —Lock, Leg. Afr. Check-list: 443 (1989). Type from Tanzania.
Vigna nigerica A. Chev. [family LEGUMINOSAE], in Rev. Bot. Appl. Agric. Trop. 24: 134 (1944). Syntypes from Senegal and Benin.
Vigna marina subsp. oblonga [family LEGUMINOSAE], sensu Padulosi in Bull. Jard. Bot. Belg. 62: 122 (1993) non Benth.
Information
Twining or trailing perennial herb 1.8–6 m long. Stem sparsely covered with appressed hairs to densely covered with spreading ferruginous hairs, glabrescent. Leaflets 3, 2.5–10 × 0.6–4.5 cm, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, more rarely linear-lanceolate, acute to obtuse and mucronate at the apex, rounded or cuneate to truncate at the base, sometimes slightly lobed or subhastate, sparsely pubescent to hairy on both surfaces; petiole 1.5–8.5 cm long; rhachis 0.5–1.8 cm long; stipules 2–5 × 1.5–2 mm, ovate to linear-lanceolate, bilobed at the base, multinerved. Peduncle 12–35 cm × 0.8–3 mm, glabrous; rhachis 1.5–5.5 cm long, 5–15-noded, internodes 1–8 mm long. Flower yellow, 12–20 × 14–22 mm; pedicel 3–7 mm long, expanding as the pod matures; bracteoles 1.5–4 × 1 mm, ovate-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 1–3-nerved. Calyx glabrescent to densely hairy; tube 2–4 mm long; lobes 1.5–4 mm long; the lower one almost twice as long as the others, the upper pair united into an acute, rounded and mucronate, or slightly bilobed lip. Standard with two centrally placed appendages; keel slightly twisted towards the right, with a short beak. Ovary 7–12-ovuled, rarely 13–14-ovuled (in Lake Tanganyika area). Pods 5.5–8 cm × 4–6.5 mm, linear, slightly compressed, curved, slightly constricted between the seeds, sparsely to densely covered with spreading ferruginous hairs, with a short curved beak. Seed 3.5–4.5 × 3–3.5 × 2–2.5 mm; hilum almost central, 1.5 mm long, oblong; rim aril not or scarcely developed.
Habitat
Swampy grasslands, reedy and sandy lake shores, papyrus swamps, streams and river sides, swamp forest
Range
Pantropical
Altitude range
from sea-level to 2200 m.
2200
0
Distribution
Mozambique M Moamba Distr., Chinhanguanine, margem do Rio Incomáti, fl. & fr. 23.x.1980, Zunguze & Boane 298 (K).Mozambique GI Bilene Distr., Macia, S. Martinho do Bilene, fl. 29.xii.1967, Balsinhas 1162 (COI).Mozambique T near Tete, fl. & fr. vii.1859, Kirk s.n. (K).Mozambique MS Gorongosa Distr., Chitengo, margem do rio Pungué, fl. & fr. 23.x.1965, Balsinhas 1000 (COI).Malawi C Nkhota Kota, lake shore, 15.vi.1970, Brummitt 11427 (K; SRGH). S: Mangochi Distr., Lake Malawi National Park, Nkhunguni Hill, fr. 12.viii.1987, Salubeni & Patel 5094 (K; MAL).Zambia S Livingstone, north bank of Zambezi, fl. & fr. 15.x.1911, F.A. Rogers 7453 (K).Zambia C Kabwe Distr., Kapiri Mposhi, fl. 4.viii.1957, Fanshawe 3418 (K; SRGH).Zambia N Lake Bangweulu, near Samfya Mission, fl. & fr. 20.viii.1952, F. White 3098 (K).Mozambique Z Mopeia, Campo, ao km 15, estrada para Mopeia, 70 m, fl. & fr. 28.xii.1967, Torre & Correia 16771 (LISC).Malawi N Chitipa Distr., between waterfall (Chisanga Falls) on North Rukuru R. and Apoka Village, fl. 29.x.1958, Robson & Angus 468 (K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Chinhoyi (Sinoia), edge of the Dichwa Swamp, fl. 25.xi.1965, Corby 1425 (K; SRGH).Zambia B 8 km north of Senanga, fl. 30.vii.1952, Codd 7256 (K; PRE).Botswana N Ngamiland Distr., edge of Moanachira River, fl. 30.iii.1972, P.A. Smith 211 (K; SRGH).
Notes
Vigna luteola, V. marina and V. oblongifolia are very close and could be considered as conspecific due to the low genetic distances observed between them. However, they are morphologically distinct, and do not seem to hybridise very easily.The more hairy variant, formerly known as V. fischeri and common in East Africa, extends into northern Malawi at forest edges, in upland grassland and along streams; 1500–2200 m. The Atlantic coastal plants previously named as V. oblonga are in fact V. luteola.