Entry for VIGNA unguiculata (L.) Walp. [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
VIGNA unguiculata(L.) Walp. [family LEGUMINOSAE-PAPILIONOIDEAE], (1842).—Verdcourt in Kew Bull. 24: 542–545 (1970) & Fl. Trop. E. Afr. (1971); Westphal, Pulses in Ethiopia: 213–232 (1974).
Information
Annual or perennial, erect to climbing herb; stems glabrous or slightly hairy. Leaflets 3, usually ovate or triangular, 1.5–16.5 x 1–12.5 cm, entire or 3-lobed, glabrous or sparsely pubescent on both surfaces. Stipules submedifixed with an entire spur, 2–6 mm long. Inflorescences subumbellate, few–several-flowered. Calyx glabrous. Standard white, greenish, yellow or purplish, 1.2–3.3 cm long, glabrous. Pods 5.5–10 x 0.3–1.1 cm (may be longer in cultivated races), glabrous or scabrous. Seeds ± oblong; hilum one-third to half the longest dimension, eccentric.
