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Taxon:  Vigna reticulata Hook. f.



Summary
Genus:
Vigna
Subgenus:
Vigna
Section:
Reticulatae
Family:
Fabaceae (alt. Leguminosae)
Subfamily:
Faboideae
Tribe:
Phaseoleae
Subtribe:
Phaseolinae
Nomen number:
41635
Place of publication:
W. J. Hooker, Niger Fl. 310. 1849
Comment:
authorship verified from original literature
Verified:
03/07/2014 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images


Reference(s)
  1. African plant database. Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques Ville de Geneve.
  2. Andrews, F. W. 1950-1956. The flowering plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
  3. Berhaut, J. 1971-. Flore illustrée du Senegal.
  4. Boudet, G. et al. 1986. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Mali
  5. Brunel, J. F. et al., eds. 1984. Flore analytique du Togo. Phanerogames
  6. Carrisso, L. W. et al., eds. 1937-. Conspectus florae angolensis.
  7. Jardim e Museu Agricola do Ultramar, Portugal. 1971-1973. Flora da Guine Portuguesa.
  8. Keay, R. W. J. & F. N. Hepper. 1953-1972. Flora of west tropical Africa, ed. 2.
  9. Lebrun, J.-P. et al. 1972. Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Tchad meridional
  10. 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 28:184.
  11. Robyns, W. et al., eds. 1948-1963. Flore du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi
  12. Thulin, M. 1983. Leguminosae of Ethiopia. Opera Bot. 68:1-223.
  13. Troupin, G. 1978-. Flore du Rwanda.
  14. Turrill, W. B. et al., eds. 1952-. Flora of tropical East Africa.
  15. Vijaykumar, A. et al. 2010. Phylogenetic analysis of subgenus Vigna species using nuclear ribosomal RNA ITS: Evidence of hybridization among Vigna unguiculata subspecies. J. Heredity 101:177-188. Note: this study examined phylogenetic affinities of species of subgenus Vigna; it included accessions of 15 species, including V. reticulata, and V. unguiculata, the latter with accessions for six subspecies (unguiculata, alba, balouensis, tenuis, pubescens, and stenophylla); it found that this species was resolved in a clade sister to members of sections Catiang and Macrodontae s.lat., rejecting its close affinity to cowpea
Common names
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaKenya  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaTanzania  
1NativeAfricaEast Tropical AfricaUganda  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaChad  
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaEthiopia extirpated?
1NativeAfricaNortheast Tropical AfricaSudan s.
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaAngola  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMalawi  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaMozambique  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZambia  
1NativeAfricaSouth Tropical AfricaZimbabwe  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaCôte D'Ivoire  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGhana  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaGuinea-Bissau  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaMali  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaNigeria  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSenegal  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaSierra Leone  
1NativeAfricaWest Tropical AfricaTogo  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaBurundi  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCameroon  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaCentral African Republic  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaDemocratic Republic of the Congo  
1NativeAfricaWest-Central Tropical AfricaRwanda  
1NativeAfricaWestern Indian OceanMadagascar  
Native
Africa
  • NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia (extirpated?), Sudan (s.), Chad
  • EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
  • WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Burundi, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda
  • WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Côte D'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
  • SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Madagascar
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=41635. Accessed 15 May 2025.