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Taxon:  Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & H. Ohashi var. angularis



Summary
Genus:
Vigna
Subgenus:
Ceratotropis
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Subtribe:
Phaseolinae
Nomen number:
312022
Verified:
10/28/1988 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & H. Ohashi (0 active accession[s])
Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & H. Ohashi var. nipponensis (Ohwi) Ohwi & H. Ohashi (0 active accession[s])
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Dolichos angularis Willd.

Homotypic Synonym(s)
Azukia angularis (Willd.) Ohwi
Phaseolus angularis (Willd.) W. Wight
Phaseolus angularis (Willd.) W. Wight var. angularis

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Reference(s)
  1. Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960-. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959-. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
  3. Duke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
  4. Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications.
  5. Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
  6. Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 1:68.
  7. Maréchal, R. et al. 1978. Étude taxonomique d'un groupe complexe d'espèces des genres Phaseolus et Vigna (Papilionaceae) sur la base données morphologiques et polliniques, traitées par l'analyse informatique. Boissiera 28:214.
  8. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2
  9. Mun-Chan, B. et al. 1986. A checklist of the Korean cultivated plants. Kulturpflanze 34:133.
  10. Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
  11. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  12. Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
  13. Sanjappa, M. 1992. Legumes of India
  14. Tomooka, N. et al. 2001. Japanese native Vigna resources. Jap. Agric. Res. Quart. 35:1-9.
  15. Tomooka, N. et al. 2011. Chapter 15. Vigna. Wild crop relatives: genomic and breeding resources, legume crops and forages 291-311.
  16. Vaughan, D. A. et al. 2005. Chapter 11. Azuki bean [Vigna angularis (Willd.) Ohwi & Ohashi]. Genetic resources, chromosome engineering, and crop improvement 347-359. Note: CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton - London - New York
Common names
English
adzuki-bean –
azuki-bean –
French
haricot adzuki –
German
Adzukibohne –
Italian
fagiolo adzuki –
Japanese Rōmaji
azuki –
Spanish
frijol adzuki –
judía adzuki –
Transcribed Korean
pat –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateCaucasusGeorgia  
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateChinaChina  
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaJapan  
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaKorea  
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateEastern AsiaTaiwan  
2CultivatedAsia-TemperateRussian Far EastRussian FederationPrimorye 
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndian SubcontinentIndia  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaBrazilBrazil  
2CultivatedSouthern AmericaWestern South AmericaColombia  
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
  • CAUCASUS: Georgia
  • RUSSIAN FAR EAST: Russian Federation [Primorye]
  • CHINA: China
  • EASTERN ASIA: Korea, Japan, Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
  • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India
  • INDO-CHINA: Thailand
Southern America
  • BRAZIL: Brazil
  • WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Colombia
Economic Uses
UsageTypeNoteReference
Animal foodforage Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 1:68.
Environmentalsoil improvergreen manureMaesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 1:68.
Human foodbeverage baseused as coffee substitute and as vegetableDuke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
Human foodpulse Maesen, L. J. G. van der & Sadikin Somaatmadja, eds. 1989. Pulses. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 1:68.
Human foodvegetableused as coffee substitute and as vegetableDuke, J. A. 1981. Handbook of legumes of world economic importance
Medicinesfolkloreas Vigna angularisMcGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2025. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://grip.mawarid.gov.om/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=312022. Accessed 15 May 2025.