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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Vigna

Hierarchical position of the Genus Vigna

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Rosidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Fabanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.       Ordo  Fabales Bromhead pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 126. Jul 1838. common name: legumes       Familia  Fabaceae Lindl. pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 148. Jul 1836. common name: Leguminosae       Subtribus  Vigninae Baill. in M.A. Hartog [trans.] pub. Nat. Hist. Pl. 2: 198, 199. Sep-Dec 1872.       Genus  Vigna Savi pub. (1824) common name: cowpea

Named members of the Genus Vigna

1	Species  aconitifolia (Jacq.) Marechal common name: moth bean
2	Species  adenantha (G.F.W. Mey.) Marechal, Mascherpa & Stan common name: wild pea
3	Species  angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & Ohashi common name: adzuki bean
4	Species  antillana (Urban) Fawcett & Rendle common name: Antilles bean
5	Species  baoulensis A. Chev. syn. Vigna unguiculata ssp. dekindtiana
6	Species  caracalla (L.) Verdc. common name: snailflower
7	Species  catjang (Burman f.) Walp. syn. Vigna unguiculata ssp. cylindrica
8	Species  cylindrica (L.) Skeels syn. Vigna unguiculata ssp. cylindrica
9	Species  hosei (Craib) Backer common name: Sarawak bean
10	Species  juruana (Harms) Verdc. common name: tropical cowpea
11	Species  longifolia (Benth.) Verdc. common name: longleaf cowpea
12	Species  luteola (Jacq.) Benth. common name: hairypod cowpea
13	Species  marina (Burm. f.) Merr. common name: notched cowpea
14	Species  minima (Roxb.) Ohwi & H. Ohashi common name: cowpea
15	Species  mungo (L.) Hepper common name: black gram
16	Species  ornata Welw. ex Baker syn. Sphenostylis stenocarpa
17	Species  owahuensis Vogel common name: Oahu cowpea
18	Species  peduncularis (Kunth) Fawcett & Rendle common name: purple cowpea
19	Species  radiata (L.) R. Wilczek
	20    Varietas  radiata common name: mung bean 21    Varietas  sublobata (Roxb.) Verdc. common name: mung bean
22	Species  repens (L.) Kuntze, non Baker syn. Vigna luteola
23	Species  retusa (E. Mey.) Walp. syn. Vigna marina
24	Species  sandwicensis Gray
	25    Varietas  heterophylla Rock syn. Vigna owahuensis
26	Species  sesquipedalis (L.) Fruw. syn. Vigna unguiculata ssp. sesquipedalis common name: aparagus bean
27	Species  sinensis (L.) Savi ex Hassk. common name: cowpea, field peas, Southern peas
	28    Subspecies  sesquipedalis (L.) Eselt. syn. Vigna unguiculata ssp. sesquipedalis
29	Species  speciosa (Kunth) Verdc. common name: wondering cowpea
30	Species  subterranea (L.) Verdc. common name: bambarra groundnut
31	Species  umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi & H. Ohashi common name: rice bean
32	Species  unguiculata (L.) Walp.
	33    Subspecies  cylindrica (L.) Verdc. common name: catjang 34    Subspecies  dekindtiana (Harms) Verdc. common name: blackeyed pea 35    Subspecies  sesquipedalis (L.) Verdc. common name: yardlong bean 36    Subspecies  unguiculata common name: southern pea
37	Species  vexillata (L.) A. Rich. common name: zombi pea

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.